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02438aam a22003858i 4500 001 897BD97C664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 220804s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022027417 020 $a 1324035609 020 $a 9781324035602 035 $a (OCoLC)1340038952 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OJ4 $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Rutherford, Adam, $e author. 245 10 $a Control : $b the dark history and troubling present of eugenics / $c Adam Rutherford. 250 $a First American edition. 263 $a 2211 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2023] 300 $a xiii, 266 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, the concept of race purification through eugenics arose in Victorian England and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today, suffusing our language and culture and echoing uneasily in discussions of modern gene editing techniques. In Control, Adam Rutherford presents "a remarkable combination of intelligence, knowledge, insight and admirable political passion, on a serious moral problem in contemporary society." (Carlo Rovelli). With disarming wit and scientific precision, he traces its intellectual origins and confronts the recurring question of whether eugenics could actually work. Control explains why eugenics remains so tempting to powerful people who wish to improve society through reproductive control, and the scientific impossibility of doing so"-- $b Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Eugenics $x History. 650 0 $a Eugenics $x Moral and ethical aspects. 941 $a 8 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509011906.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024527.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021636.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031333.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20230817010214.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230706015711.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011117.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20221117010138.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=897BD97C664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search