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Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar

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Introduction: 1. The Eugenics Education Society: the Setting and the Programme, 2. The Age of Pedigrees: the Methodology of Eugenics, 1900-1920, 3. Ideology and Method: R A Fisher and Research in Eugenics, 1920-1930, 4. The Attack from the Left: Marxism and the new Mathematical Techniques of the Thirties, 5. Human Genetics and the Eugenics Problematic, 1930-1950, Epilogue and Conclusion

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Key concepts: Eugenics, Ideology, Sociology, Human genetics, Environmental ethics, Social science, Genealogy, Political science