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100 1  Rutherford, Adam,|eauthor. 
245 10 Control :|bthe dark history and troubling present of 
       eugenics /|cAdam Rutherford. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2023] 
300    xiii, 266 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the 
       Holocaust within just fifty years? Inspired by Darwin's 
       ideas about evolution, the concept of race purification 
       through eugenics arose in Victorian England and quickly 
       spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, 
       funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into 
       racist American laws that became the ideological 
       cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific 
       legacy, eugenics looms large today, suffusing our language
       and culture and echoing uneasily in discussions of modern 
       gene editing techniques. In Control, Adam Rutherford 
       presents "a remarkable combination of intelligence, 
       knowledge, insight and admirable political passion, on a 
       serious moral problem in contemporary society." (Carlo 
       Rovelli). With disarming wit and scientific precision, he 
       traces its intellectual origins and confronts the 
       recurring question of whether eugenics could actually 
       work. Control explains why eugenics remains so tempting to
       powerful people who wish to improve society through 
       reproductive control, and the scientific impossibility of 
       doing so"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Eugenics|xHistory. 
650  0 Eugenics|xMoral and ethical aspects. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aRutherford, Adam.
       |tControl|dLondon : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022
       |z9781474622387