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History of Eugenics in Global Perspective

Av Thomas Adam

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This book presents the very first global treatment of eugenics. Eugenics emerged at the end of the nineteenth century as a global phenomenon that transcended religions, political orientations, and ideologies. It deeply influenced concepts of health care and state policies in many countries. Modern-day specialization and fragmentation of the historical profession have proven as ill-equipped to capture a global phenomenon such as eugenics and instead produced national or even regional studies of eugenics in which authors highlight the perceived national and regional specifics of eugenics in a particular setting. This book, by contrast, provides a history of eugenics that treats this global phenomenon in its complexity and its global span. It does not claim that eugenics in England, Germany, Canada, the United States, China and Japan was identical, but that developments in each country emerged from intensive contacts between eugenicists in these countries with each other. These eugenicists spoke the same language, followed similar trajectories, and shared a common vision.
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Thomas Adam is Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas.

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"This book provides a comprehensive history of the concept and the practice of eugenics from its invention in the nineteenth century to the present day. Meticulously researched, it shows the global reach and impact of this infamous doctrine. It will become required reading for any student of the history of eugenics." - Dr. Egbert Klautke, Associate Professor in the Cultural History of Central Europe, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK"This work covers the well-known fact of the emergence of eugenics in the first chapters, which lay out the ground for a broader sweep of the topic. The following chapters are highly original in bringing several new aspects into the consideration of eugenics, that is, the issues of prenatal screening with its consequences and the concept of death with dignity." - Dr. Angela Schwarz, Professor of History at University of Siegen, Germany.

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