1. The Unfit: a History of a Bad Idea
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7. The Unfit : A History of a Bad Idea
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35. The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea
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46. The Unfit: The History of a Bad Idea
by Carlson Elof Axel 
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Description: Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Date: 2001. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear.. xiv, 451 p. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. The Unfit, by Elof Carlson explores the sources of a movement--negative eugenics--that was used to justify the Holocaust, which claimed millions of innocent lives in World War II. The title reflects the nearly three centuries of belief that some people are socially unfit by virtue of a defective biology, and echoes an earlier theory of degeneracy, dating to biblical antiquity, in which some people were deemed unfit because of some transgression against religious law. The author presents the first biological theory of degeneracy onanism--and then follows the development of degeneracy theory throughout the nineteenth century and its application to a variety of social classes. The key intellectual theories and their proponents form the framework of this exploration, which includes the concepts of evolution and heredity and how they were applied to social problems. These ideas are followed into the twentieth century with the development of theories of positive and negative eugenics, the establishment of compulsory sterilization laws, racism and anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust. This story of misapplied science and technology is one that still haunts humanity in the twenty-first century. The ghost of eugenics recurs in many guises during debates and controversies about intelligence testing, genetic screening, prenatal diagnosis, gene therapy, new reproductive strategies, and uses of our genomic information. Carlson ends his discussion of the history of humanity in this arena with an exploration of the future of genetics that is base on new technologies and application of the Human Genome Project findings, as well as a discussion of the death of the old eugenics and of the problemsthat will not go away, including our ambivalence about our own biology. 2001. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ISBN 0879695870 9780879695873 [US] 

47. The Unfit: the History of a Bad Idea
by Carlson, Elof Axel 
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Description: Cold Spring Harbor, NY Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2001 Reprint. Second printing Hardcover Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. xiv, 451 p. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. The Unfit, by Elof Carlson explores the sources of a movement--negative eugenics--that was used to justify the Holocaust, which claimed millions of innocent lives in World War II. The title reflects the nearly three centuries of belief that some people are socially unfit by virtue of a defective biology, and echoes an earlier theory of degeneracy, dating to biblical antiquity, in which some people were deemed unfit because of some transgression against religious law. The author presents the first biological theory of degeneracy onanism--and then follows the development of degeneracy theory throughout the nineteenth century and its application to a variety of social classes. The key intellectual theories and their proponents form the framework of this exploration, which includes the concepts of evolution and heredity and how they were applied to social problems. These ideas are followed into the twentieth century with the development of theories of positive and negative eugenics, the establishment of compulsory sterilization laws, racism and anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust. This story of misapplied science and technology is one that still haunts humanity in the twenty-first century. The ghost of eugenics recurs in many guises during debates and controversies about intelligence testing, genetic screening, prenatal diagnosis, gene therapy, new reproductive strategies, and uses of our genomic information. Carlson ends his discussion of the history of humanity in this arena with an exploration of the future of genetics that is base on new technologies and application of the Human Genome Project findings, as well as a discussion of the death of the old eugenics and of the problemsthat will not go away, including our ambivalence about our own biology. 

48. The Unfit: The History of a Bad Idea
by Carlson, Elof Axel 
Price: USD 50.00
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Description: ISBN10: 0879695870, ISBN13: 9780879695873, [publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY] Hardcover xiv, 451 p. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. The Unfit, by Elof Carlson explores the sources of a movement--negative eugenics--that was used to justify the Holocaust, which claimed millions of innocent lives in World War II. The title reflects the nearly three centuries of belief that some people are socially unfit by virtue of a defective biology, and echoes an earlier theory of degeneracy, dating to biblical antiquity, in which some people were deemed unfit because of some transgression against religious law. The author presents the first biological theory of degeneracy onanism--and then follows the development of degeneracy theory throughout the nineteenth century and its application to a variety of social classes. The key intellectual theories and their proponents form the framework of this exploration, which includes the concepts of evolution and heredity and how they were applied to social problems. These ideas are followed into the twentieth century with the development of theories of positive and negative eugenics, the establishment of compulsory sterilization laws, racism and anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust. This story of misapplied science and technology is one that still haunts humanity in the twenty-first century. The ghost of eugenics recurs in many guises during debates and controversies about intelligence testing, genetic screening, prenatal diagnosis, gene therapy, new reproductive strategies, and uses of our genomic information. Carlson ends his discussion of the history of humanity in this arena with an exploration of the future of genetics that is base on new technologies and application of the Human Genome Project findings, as well as a discussion of the death of the old eugenics and of the problemsthat will not go away, including our ambivalence about our own biology. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. [Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]  

49. The Unfit : A History Of A Bed Idea Hb
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