Examines the mass sterilization practices in Scandinavia, and the history, politics, science, and economics that led up to the eugenics programs.
In 1997 Eugenics and the Welfare State caused an uproar with international repercussions. This edition contains a new introduction by Broberg and Roll-Hansen, addressing events that occurred following the original publication. The four essays in this book stand as a chilling ind…
A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America'and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it. In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little known history of eugenics in America'a movement that began in the…
Examines eugenics in the early-twentieth-century U.S., describing the Supreme Court case "Buck v. Bell," which legalized forced sterilization, and discussing the forces behind and extent of the practice--more than sixty-five thousand people throughout the country were sterilized…
Before it became established as an academic discipline, physical anthropology emerged as a contested notion of reference to the cosmological views associated with the Darwinian theory of evolution and its implementation by the natural sciences. However, its subsequent developmen…
Before it became established as an academic discipline, physical anthropology emerged as a contested notion of reference to the cosmological views associated with the Darwinian theory of evolution and its implementation by the natural sciences. However, its subsequent developmen…
"Before it became established as an academic discipline, physical anthropology emerged as a contested notion of reference to the cosmological views associated with the Darwinian theory of evolution and its implementation by the natural sciences. However, its subsequent developme…