Bücher von Diane B. Paul

Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics.

How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disrepute? Has it survived in other guises? This title sets out to answer some of these questions - questions that have acquired a new urgency in light of developments in genetic medicine.