In the name of eugenics : genetics and the uses of human heredity / by Daniel J. Kevles.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 1985.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 426 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0394507029
- 9780394507026
- Eugenics -- History
- Heredity, Human
- Race discrimination
- Genetic engineering
- Eugénisme
- Hérédité humaine
- Discrimination raciale
- Génie génétique
- Genetic Engineering -- history
- Eugenics
- Genética
- Eugenia
- Hereditariedade
- Genetica
- Rassendiscriminatie
- Theorieën
- Eugenik
- Eugenics
- Genetic engineering
- Heredity, Human
- Race discrimination
- 304.5 19
- HQ751 .K48 1985
- HQ 751
- 44.02
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Traces the history of eugenics, the science of improving human beings by exploiting theories of heredity, from its late-nineteenth-century origins to the present, addressing such controversial issues as cloning and genetic engineering.
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