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  title info:
    title: Control
    sub title: the dark history and troubling present of eugenics
  name:
    name part: Rutherford, Adam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 266 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, the concept of race purification through eugenics arose in Victorian England 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. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today, suffusing our language and culture and echoing uneasily in discussions of modern gene editing techniques. In Control, Adam Rutherford presents "a remarkable combination of intelligence, knowledge, insight and admirable political passion, on a serious moral problem in contemporary society." (Carlo Rovelli). With disarming wit and scientific precision, he traces its intellectual origins and confronts the recurring question of whether eugenics could actually work. Control explains why eugenics remains so tempting to powerful people who wish to improve society through reproductive control, and the scientific impossibility of doing so.
  note: Adam Rutherford.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Eugenics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Eugenics
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: HQ751 .R87 2023
  classification: 363.9/209
  identifier: 1324035609
  identifier: 9781324035602
  identifier: 9781324035619
  identifier: 2022027417
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220804
    record change date: 20250816185303.7
    record identifier: in00004633769