This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
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Scholarly and penetrating, Pauline Mazumdar's study of eugenics is a major contribution not only to the sociology of science, but to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
–Bryan S. Turner, University of Essex
–Bryan S. Turner, University of Essex
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Pauline Mazumdar teaches in the Department of the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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The Flawed World of Genetic Security,
By Patricia B. Ross (Wellesley, MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain (Hardcover)
Genetic determinism for enhancement as well as genetic determinism to remove weakness and predispositions of potential illness suffers from the idealism and greed that accompanies all recipe designers, the desire for perfection, that can never be good enough. Allowing this addictive concept to take hold can so alter the mechanics of nature that life may not be held with the sacredness that we now attach to it. The cloning that is continuously and constantly searching for the ideal is much like choosing contestants for a Miss America or a Miss Universe pageant, but applied to the choice of babies and their characteristics. Which combination could possibly be good enough? And with only 30,000 genes to choose from, wouldn't the likelihood produce idealized genetic copies or twins in short order if people were given the option to choose? The world would find it very difficult to refrain from making the "ultimate choice" if given the opportunity, and at the point where we literally compose children rather than relying upon the chance genetics that humans are currently stuck with, we may have moved beyond the world of the living into the world of fantasy where all participants become the stars of their own manufactured screen play, literally. Genetic security is approaching a time when this will be possible, and is likely to occur, allowing life to lose much of the mystery and uncertainty which makes it fascinating, and perhaps reducing it to a level of boredom with life that few will enjoy. Not only is it a moral issue; it may become a practical issue. Fixing the problems of disease in-utero is far different from designing in-utero but involves the same process, and is, therefore, highly probable to occur without stringent controls to prevent it, world wide.
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This book is an account of the eugenics movement in Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eugenic problematic, pauper pedigrees, pedigree project, social problem group, pigmentary effector system, sterilisation campaign, voluntary sterilisation, eugenic sterilisation, pauper families, pauper class, ancestral heredity, pedigree method, crop variation, pedigree study, human genome analysis, social biology, differential birth rate, mental defect, prolific breeding, eugenics movement, gene substitution, pedigree studies, linkage relations, human inheritance, differential fertility Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eugenics Society, Eugenics Education Society, Charity Organisation Society, Research Committee, Medical Research Council, Royal Commission, Eugenics Review, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, London School of Economics, Cora Hodson, Sybil Gotto, Wood Committee, National Council, University College, Moral Education League, Wood Report, British Medical Association, Julian Huxley, Lancelot Hogben, Udny Yule, Galton Laboratory, Social Science Association, Wilhelm Weinberg, Leonard Darwin New!
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This book is an account of the eugenics movement in Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eugenic problematic, pauper pedigrees, pedigree project, social problem group, pigmentary effector system, sterilisation campaign, voluntary sterilisation, eugenic sterilisation, pauper families, pauper class, ancestral heredity, pedigree method, crop variation, pedigree study, human genome analysis, social biology, differential birth rate, mental defect, prolific breeding, eugenics movement, gene substitution, pedigree studies, linkage relations, human inheritance, differential fertility Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eugenics Society, Eugenics Education Society, Charity Organisation Society, Research Committee, Medical Research Council, Royal Commission, Eugenics Review, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, London School of Economics, Cora Hodson, Sybil Gotto, Wood Committee, National Council, University College, Moral Education League, Wood Report, British Medical Association, Julian Huxley, Lancelot Hogben, Udny Yule, Galton Laboratory, Social Science Association, Wilhelm Weinberg, Leonard Darwin New!
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- The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics by William B. Provine on 6 pages
- In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel Kevles on 4 pages
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography(10 Book Set)18 Volumes Total (10 volume set) by Charles Coulston Gillispie on 4 pages
- Science for the Citizen by L. Hogben on 4 pages
- Sociology as Social Criticism by Tom Bottomore in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa by Saul Dubow on page 122, page 124, and Back Matter
- A Concise Companion to Modernism (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by David Bradshaw in Front Matter, and page 54
- The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History by Robin L. Bennett on page 12, and page 180
- The Information State in England: The Central Collection of Information on Citizens, 1500-2000 by Edward Higgs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920 by Margaret E. Derry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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