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Our Own Master Race : Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Canadian Social History SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1990Copyright date: ©1990Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442623316
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Our Own Master RaceDDC classification:
  • 363.920971
LOC classification:
  • HQ755.5.C2 M353 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Birth of Biological Politics -- 2 Public Health and Hereditarian Concerns -- 3 Stemming the Flood of Defective Aliens -- 4 Sex, Science, and Race Betterment -- 5 Creating a Haven for Human Thoroughbreds -- 6 The Eugenics Society of Canada -- 7 Genetics, Eugenics, and Human Pedigrees -- 8 The Death of Eugenics? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate.".
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Birth of Biological Politics -- 2 Public Health and Hereditarian Concerns -- 3 Stemming the Flood of Defective Aliens -- 4 Sex, Science, and Race Betterment -- 5 Creating a Haven for Human Thoroughbreds -- 6 The Eugenics Society of Canada -- 7 Genetics, Eugenics, and Human Pedigrees -- 8 The Death of Eugenics? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate.".

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