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The unfit [[electronic resource] ] : a history of a bad idea / / Elof Axel Carlson
| The unfit [[electronic resource] ] : a history of a bad idea / / Elof Axel Carlson |
| Autore | Carlson Elof Axel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.9/2/09 |
| Soggetto topico | Eugenics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-87969-658-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456138003321 |
Carlson Elof Axel
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| Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The unfit [[electronic resource] ] : a history of a bad idea / / Elof Axel Carlson
| The unfit [[electronic resource] ] : a history of a bad idea / / Elof Axel Carlson |
| Autore | Carlson Elof Axel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.9/2/09 |
| Soggetto topico | Eugenics - History |
| ISBN | 0-87969-658-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780169203321 |
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Carlson Elof Axel
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| Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The unfit : a history of a bad idea / / Elof Axel Carlson
| The unfit : a history of a bad idea / / Elof Axel Carlson |
| Autore | Carlson Elof Axel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.9/2/09 |
| Soggetto topico | Eugenics - History |
| ISBN | 0-87969-658-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910975090603321 |
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Carlson Elof Axel
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| Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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