The Politics of Heredity
The Politics of Heredity

Author: Diane B. Paul

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780791438213

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Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics.

The Journal of Heredity
The Journal of Heredity

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Published: 1920

Total Pages: 430

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The journal discusses articles on gene action, regulation, and transmission in both plant and animal species, including the genetic aspects of botany, cytogenetics and evolution, zoology, and molecular and developmental biology.

The American Development of Biology
The American Development of Biology

Author: Ronald Rainger

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1512805785

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Selected as one of the Best "Sci-Tech" Books of 1988 by Library Journal The essays in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the development of biology in the United States.

Segregation's Science
Segregation's Science

Author: Gregory Michael Dorr

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2008-10-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0813927552

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"Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation - rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black and Native American from white. Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers that science is socially constructed."--BOOK JACKET.

The Triumph of Evolution
The Triumph of Evolution

Author: Hamilton Cravens

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1512815357

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Hamilton Cravens challenges widespread belief to argue that the impact of evolutionary ideas on American culture and science has been greater since the collapse of Social Darwinism. he portrays a new generation of American scientists whose pioneering work led to the bitterly debated heredity-environment controversy in the 1920s and then, in the '30s, to a "synthetic" theory of the way heredity and environment together have shaped human nature and culture. The resolution of this issue seemed to hold an exhilarating promise. If scientists could explain—and even predict—human behavior, they might help restore social control and stability in an age of domestic ferment and international turmoil. The Triumph of Evolution is the first scholarly history of one of the most significant scientific controversies of the twentieth century.

The Politics of Making Kinship
The Politics of Making Kinship

Author: Erdmute Alber

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-12-09

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1800737858

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The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.