In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Pelican)

by Daniel Jo Kevles (Author)

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  Paperback
  1986

  $5.90

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  Paperback
  1995

  $51.94

  Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics - the science of improving the human species by exploiting theories of heredity - from its inception in the late 19th century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering. Dealing seriously and objectively with the development of human genetics as a scientific and medical discipline, it also contains stories of competition and conflict among scientists who have dominated the field.