God's Eugenicist: Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline

by Andres Horacio Reggiani

The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, world-wide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers a fascinating and important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), as a way of understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845451724
• ISBN13: 9781845451721
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"