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The eugenic mind project
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | The eugenic mind project/ Robert A. Wilson. |
| 개인저자 | Wilson, Robert A.(Robert Andrew), author. |
| 발행사항 | Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, [2018]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Andrew). Eugenic mind project. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018] 9780262037204 |
| ISBN | 9780262343879 0262343878 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 요약 | Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to perceived threats of criminality, moral degeneration, feeble-mindedness, and "the rising tide of color," eugenic laws and social policies aimed to better the human race by regulating reproductive choice through science and technology. In this book, Rob Wilson examines eugenic thought and practice--from forced sterilization to prenatal screening--drawing on his experience working with eugenics survivors.? Using the social sciences' standpoint theory as a framework to understand the intersection of eugenics, disability, social inclusiveness, and human variation, Wilson focuses on those who have lived through a eugenic past and those confronted by the legacy of eugenic thinking today.? By doing so, he brings eugenics from the distant past to the ongoing present.?Wilson discusses such topics as the conceptualization of eugenic traits; the formulation of laws regulating immigration and marriage and requiring sexual sterilization; the depiction of the targets of eugenics as "subhuman"; ?the systematic construction of a concept of normality; the eugenic logic in prenatal screening and contemporary bioethics; and the incorporation of eugenics and disability into standpoint theory.?Individual purchasers of this book will receive free access to the documentary?Surviving Eugenics, available at EugenicsArchive.ca/film. |
| 일반주제명 | Eugenics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. Eugenics. |
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