How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls

A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement Eugenics, the effort to improve the human s

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reprodu

In the continuing media furore over 'designer babies' and the race to complete the map of human DNA - in other words, to identify the individual genes that make

This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of