Genetic politics : from eugenics to genome / Anne Kerr and Tom Shakespeare ; with cartoons by Suzy Varty.

By:

Kerr, Anne [author.]

Contributor(s):

Shakespeare, Tom, 1966- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1873797257
9781873797259
1873797265
9781873797266

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.92

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. The rise of eugenics in the UK and the USA -- 3. Nazi racial science -- 4. Eugenics in democratic societies -- 5. Reform eugenics from the 1930s to the 1970s -- 6. The rise of the new genetics -- 7. Genetics as culture -- 8. Choice in social context -- 9. The consequences of choice -- 10. Regulating genomics -- 11. Conclusion.

Review: "Genetic Politics explores the history of eugenics and the rise of contemporary genomics, identifying continuities and changes between the past and the present. The authors reject the two extreme positions that human genetics are either fatally corrupted by, or utterly immune from, eugenic influence. They argue that today's forms of genetic screening are far from equivalent to the eugenics of the past, but eugenics cannot simply be dismissed as bad science, or the product of totalitarian regimes, for its values and practices continue to shape genetics today."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

"Genetic Politics explores the history of eugenics and the rise of contemporary genomics, identifying continuities and changes between the past and the present. The authors reject the two extreme positions that human genetics are either fatally corrupted by, or utterly immune from, eugenic influence. They argue that today's forms of genetic screening are far from equivalent to the eugenics of the past, but eugenics cannot simply be dismissed as bad science, or the product of totalitarian regimes, for its values and practices continue to shape genetics today."--BOOK JACKET.

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