The unfit : a history of a bad idea
Carlson's history of degeneracy theory, the idea that certain people are biologically disposed to become socially unfit or "degenerate," examines the birth of both good and bad eugenics movements. While good eugenics movements focus on people whose needs may require intense social attention and expensive social investments, bad eugenics movements call for isolation if not eradication and genocide. He brings the history into the present day, where the potential misapplication of DNA science and social attitudes toward the human genome could lead to similar movements
Print Book, English, ©2001
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., ©2001
History
xiv, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780879696580, 9780879695873, 0879696583, 0879695870
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Ch. 1. Who are the unfit?
Ch. 2. The unfit in Biblical times
Ch. 3. Self-pollution and declining health
Ch. 4. Degeneracy theory: identifying the innately depraved and the victims of vicious upbringing
Ch. 5. Dangerous classes and social degeneracy
Ch. 6. Poor laws and the descent to degeneracy
Ch. 7. The perfectibility of man confronts vice and misery
Ch. 8. Evolutionary ethics before darwin
Ch. 9. Hereditary units and the pessimism of the germ plasm
Ch. 10. The Jukes and the tribe of Ishmael
Ch. 11. A minor prophet of democracy
Ch. 12. Isolating the unfit through compulsory sterilization
Ch. 13. The emergence of two wings of the eugenics movement
Ch. 14. Europe's undesirables replace the domestic unfit
Ch. 15. Eugenics becomes an international movement
Ch. 16. Racism and human inequality
Ch. 17. Jews as people, race, culture, religion, and victims
Ch. 18. The smoke of Auschwitz
Ch. 19. The abandonment of eugenics by genetics
Ch. 20. The future of eugenics
Ch. 21. Dealing with life's imperfections
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