Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

by Adam Rutherford

Book Overview

Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132406613X
• ISBN13: 9781324066132
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"