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This book analyzes whether the "new debate on genetics" owes a debt to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s. More specifically, the quest

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasib

This book analyses the debates between handicapped people's movement and women's movement in Japan about the issue of selective abortion focusing on the concept

The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalism In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the e