Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics
by
M. Meloni
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of...