LEADER 02829nam 22004214a 450 001 9910975090603321 005 20251116160359.0 010 $a0-87969-658-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137902 035 $a(CKB)111056486865752 035 $a(BIP)8336368 035 $a(BIP)7183585 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486865752 100 $a20010501d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe unfit $ea history of a bad idea /$fElof Axel Carlson 210 $aCold Spring Harbor, N.Y. $cCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (468 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-87969-587-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 409-426) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology of the Biological Concept of Unfit People -- Introduction -- Part I: Before Darwin -- 1 Who Are the Unfit? -- 2 The Unfit in Biblical Times -- 3 Self- Pollution and Declining Health -- 4 Degeneracy Theory: Identifying the Innately Depraved and the Victims of Vicious Upbringing -- 5 Dangerous Classes and Social Degeneracy -- 6 Poor Laws and the Descent to Degeneracy -- 7 The Perfectibility of Man Confronts Vice and Misery -- 8 Evolutionary Ethics before Darwin -- 9 Hereditary Units and the Pessimism of the Germ Plasm -- Part II: Eugenics Takes the Spotlight -- 10 The Jukes and the Tribe of Ishmael -- 11 A Minor Prophet of Democracy -- 12 Isolating the Unfit through Compulsory Sterilization -- 13 The Emergence of Two Wings of the Eugenics Movement -- 14 Europe's Undesirables Replace the Domestic Unfit -- 15 Eugenics Becomes an International Movement -- Part III: Racism, the Holocaust, and Beyond -- 16 Racism and Human Inequality -- 17 Jews as People, Race, Culture, Religion, and Victims -- 18 The Smoke of Auschwitz -- 19 The Abandonment of Eugenics by Genetics -- 20 The Future of Eugenics -- 21 Dealing with Life's Imperfections -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Flow Diagrams and the History of Ideas -- Appendix 2: Useful Books on the History of Eugenics -- Appendix 3: Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThe bad idea is that some people are simply unfit to live and reproduce. Carlson (biochemistry and cell biology, Stony Brook U.) explores degeneracy theory and its relation to eugenics in sections covering from biblical times to Darwin; the rise of eugenics; and racism, the Holocaust, and beyond. c. Book News Inc. 606 $aEugenics$xHistory 615 0$aEugenics$xHistory. 676 $a363.9/2/09 700 $aCarlson$b Elof Axel$0462185 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910975090603321 996 $aThe unfit$94470842 997 $aUNINA