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100	1		_aCarlson, Elof Axel.
245	1	0	_aUnfit : _bA History of a Bad Idea.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aWoodbury : _bCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, _c2001.
264		4	_c©2001.
300			_a1 online resource (468 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology of the Biological Concept of Unfit People -- Introduction -- Part I: Before Darwin -- 1 Who Are the Unfit? -- 2 The Unfit in Biblical Times -- 3 Self- Pollution and Declining Health -- 4 Degeneracy Theory: Identifying the Innately Depraved and the Victims of Vicious Upbringing -- 5 Dangerous Classes and Social Degeneracy -- 6 Poor Laws and the Descent to Degeneracy -- 7 The Perfectibility of Man Confronts Vice and Misery -- 8 Evolutionary Ethics before Darwin -- 9 Hereditary Units and the Pessimism of the Germ Plasm -- Part II: Eugenics Takes the Spotlight -- 10 The Jukes and the Tribe of Ishmael -- 11 A Minor Prophet of Democracy -- 12 Isolating the Unfit through Compulsory Sterilization -- 13 The Emergence of Two Wings of the Eugenics Movement -- 14 Europe's Undesirables Replace the Domestic Unfit -- 15 Eugenics Becomes an International Movement -- Part III: Racism, the Holocaust, and Beyond -- 16 Racism and Human Inequality -- 17 Jews as People, Race, Culture, Religion, and Victims -- 18 The Smoke of Auschwitz -- 19 The Abandonment of Eugenics by Genetics -- 20 The Future of Eugenics -- 21 Dealing with Life's Imperfections -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Flow Diagrams and the History of Ideas -- Appendix 2: Useful Books on the History of Eugenics -- Appendix 3: Bibliography -- Index.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aEugenics -- History.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aCarlson, Elof Axel _tUnfit _dWoodbury : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,c2001 _z9780879695873
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3137902 _zClick to View
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