ISBN:
0520058232
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Katz, Richard J. BOOK REVIEWS 1989
Dissertation note:
Zugl.: Berkeley, Calif., Univ., Diss
DDC:
304.5
Keywords:
Schallmayer, Wilhelm
;
Heredity
;
Eugenics
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Rassenhygiene
;
Arisierung
Abstract:
"Eugenics" is a political strategy denoting some sort of social control over reproduction. In the interest of "improving" the hereditary substrate of a given population, this supposed science seeks to regulate human procreation by encouraging the fecundity of the allegedly genetically superior groups in society and simultaneously discouraging and even prohibiting so-called inferior types from having children. The mere definition of the term, of course, does not account for a curious historical fact: the proliferation, beginning around the turn of the century, of eugenics movements in most Western and in several Far Eastern and Latin American countries. Until recently, however, only Anglo-American eugenics has been the subject of serious scholarly investigation.
Note:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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