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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kevles, Daniel J. In the name of eugenics. New York : Knopf, 1985 (OCoLC)654583848 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel J Kevles |
| ISBN: | 0394507029 9780394507026 |
| OCLC Number: | 11157577 |
| Description: | x, 426 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | by Daniel J. Kevles. |
Abstract:
Traces the history of eugenics, the science of improving human beings by exploiting theories of heredity, from its late-nineteenth-century origins to the present, addressing such controversial issues as cloning and genetic engineering.
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- Eugenics -- History.
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