1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787492303321

Autore

McLaren Angus

Titolo

Our own master race : eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945 / / Angus McLaren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©1990

ISBN

1-4426-5587-9

1-4426-2331-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Canadian Social History Series

Disciplina

363.9/2/0971

Soggetti

Eugenics - Canada - History - 20th century

History

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The birth of biological politics -- Public health and hereditarian concerns -- Stemming the flood of defective aliens -- Sex, science, and race betterment -- Creating a haven for human thoroughbreds -- The eugenics society of Canada -- Genetics, eugenics, and human pedigress -- The death of eugenics?

Sommario/riassunto

Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate." The sterilization of the feeble-minded in Alberta and British Columbia was merely the most dramatic attempt to limit the numbers of the "unfit." But in the decades prior to World War Two, eugenic preoccupations were to colour discussions of immigration restriction, birth control, mental testing, family allowances, and a host of similar social policies. Doctors, psychiatrists, geneticists, social workers, and mental



hygienists provided an anxious Canadian middle class with the reassuring argument that poverty, crime, prostitution, and mental retardation were primarily the products of defective genes, not a defective social system. In explaining why biological solutions were sought for social problems McLaren not only provides a provocative reappraisal of the ideas and activities of a generation of feminists, political progressives, and public health propagandists but he also explores some of the roots of our not-so-latent racist tendencies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783737403321

Titolo

Beyond liberal education : essays in honour of Paul H. Hirst / / edited by Robin Barrow and Patricia White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-87160-0

1-134-87161-9

1-280-33105-4

0-203-30482-9

0-203-03178-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HirstPaul Heywood

BarrowRobin

WhitePatricia <1937->

Disciplina

370/.1

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Education, Humanistic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; BEYOND LIBERAL EDUCATION: Essays in honour of Paul H.Hirst; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 GOOD TEACHING; 2 TRUTH AND LIBERAL EDUCATION; 3 LIBERAL EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL PREPARATION; 4 PAUL HIRST'S STRUCTURE, OR, THE USES AND ABUSES OF AN OVERWORKED CONCEPT; 5 THE CURRICULUM: THE TIMELESS AND THE



TIME-BOUND; 6 CURRICULUM AND THE MIRROR OF NOWLEDGE; 7 MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: HIRST'S PERCEPTION OF THEIR SCOPE AND RELATIONSHIP; 8 WITTGENSTEIN'S SPECULATIVE AESTHETICS IN ITS ETHICAL CONTEXT; 9 THE ARTS, WELL-BEING AND EDUCATION

10 EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICESBIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS BY P.H. HIRST; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS MAKING CRITICAL REFERENCE TO THE WORK OF P.H. HIRST; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays by philosophers and educationalists of international reputation, all published here for the first time, celebrates Paul Hirst's professional career. The introductory essay by Robin Barrow and Patricia White outlines Paul Hirst's career and maps the shifts in his thought about education, showing how his views on teacher education, the curriculum and educational aims are interrelated. Contributions from leading names in British and American philosophy of education cover themes ranging from the nature of good teaching to Wittgensteinian aesthetics. The collection conclud

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910895652503321

Titolo

AACR meeting abstracts online

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Philadelphia, PA], : American Association for Cancer Research

Disciplina

616.9

Soggetti

Cancer - Research

Neoplasms

Conference papers and proceedings.

Abstracts.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

An archive site for the abstracts of AAACR meetings. The AACR Annual



Meeting is the world's largest and most comprehensive gathering of professionals in the cancer field, encompassing basic, translational, and clinical research.