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Author : Daniel J. Kevles
Release : 1995
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 574/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In the Name of Eugenics by : Daniel J. Kevles
Download or read book In the Name of Eugenics written by Daniel J. Kevles. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich narrative about the science of "improving" the human race, from the 19th century to genetic engineering today.
Author : Jan Sapp
Release : 1987-05-14
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 686/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond the Gene by : Jan Sapp
Download or read book Beyond the Gene written by Jan Sapp. This book was released on 1987-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their claims in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians. A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered as he explores the conflicts which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism vs. vitalism, reductionism vs. holism, preformation vs. epigenesis, neo-Darwinism vs. new-Lamarckism, and gradualism vs. saltationism. In so doing, Sapp highlights competitive struggles for power among individuals and disciplinary groups. He accepts that political interests and general social contexts may directly affect scientific ideas, but develops the stronger thesis that social interests inside science itself are always involved in the content of scientific knowledge. He goes on to show that there are no neutral judges in scientific controversies and investigates the social strategies and methodological rhetoric used by scientists when they defend or oppose a particular theory. At the same time, Sapp illustrates the social constraints that ensure the high cost and risk of entertaining unorthodox theories in the sciences.
Author : Philippa Levine
Release : 2017
Genre : Eugenics
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Book Rating : 904/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eugenics by : Philippa Levine
Download or read book Eugenics written by Philippa Levine. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.
Author : Diane B. Paul
Release : 1995
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis Controlling Human Heredity, 1865 to the Present by : Diane B. Paul
Download or read book Controlling Human Heredity, 1865 to the Present written by Diane B. Paul. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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? These are some of the questions that Diane Paul sets out to answer - questions that have acquired a new urgency in light of developments in genetic medicine.
Author : Theodore M. Porter
Release : 2020-07-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Genetics in the Madhouse by : Theodore M. Porter
Download or read book Genetics in the Madhouse written by Theodore M. Porter. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for 'feebleminded' children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one"--Jacket.
