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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics - Bashford, Alison (Editor), and Levine, Philippa (Editor)
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Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states, to feminist ambitions for birth control, to public health campaigns, to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust: ...

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics 2012, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199945054

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics 2010, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195373141

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