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Author:

Paul, Diane B., 1946-

Title:

The politics of heredity : essays on eugenics, biomedicine, and the nature-nurture debate / Diane B. Paul.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

viii, 219 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human genetics--History.--History.
Eugenics--History.--History.
Nature and nurture--History.--History.
Genetics, Medical--history.
Eugenics--history.
Politics.
Hereditariedade.
Genética.
Eugenia.
Genetica.
Eugenetica.
Politieke aspecten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Eugenics and the left -- The nine lives of discredited data -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the origins of behavior genetics -- A debate that refuses to die -- Eugenic anxieties, social realities, and political choices -- Did eugenics rest on an elementary mistake? -- Eugenic origins of medical genetics -- Genes and contagious disease : the rise and fall of a metaphor -- PKU screening : competing agendas, converging stories.

Series:

SUNY series, philosophy and biology

ISBN:

9780791438220 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791438228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791438213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
079143821X (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37980665

LCCN:

97045212

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)