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In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as it was called, was a movement... Read Full Overview

Bridging the gap between the scholarly and lay understandings of the history of eugenics, this book aims to enrich the debate on perplexing contemporary choices in genetic medicine. The US experience is compared with those of Canada, Britain, Germany and the Scandinavian countries... Read Full Overview

Bridging the gap between the scholarly and lay understandings of the history of eugenics, this book aims to enrich the debate on perplexing contemporary choices in genetic medicine. The US experience is compared with that of Canada, Britain, Germany and the Scandinavian countries... Read Full Overview

This historiography emphasizes eugenics' broad and persistent appeal and its close association with genetics. Professor Paul aims to bridge the gap between expert and lay understandings of the history of eugenics. She enriches the debate on the perplexing contemporary choices... Read Full Overview