How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disr

The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the

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

Is inheritable genetic modification the new dividing line in gene therapy? The editors of this searching investigation, representing clinical medicine, public h

When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the at

Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasib

This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acc