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A human garden : French policy and the transatlantic legacies of eugenic experimentation /
"Well into the 1980s, Strasbourg, France, was the site of a curious and little-noted experiment: Ungemach, a garden city dating back to the high days of eugenic experimentation that offered luxury living to couples who were deemed biologically fit and committed to contractual childbearing targe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2019.
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| Edición: | English-language edition. |
| Colección: | Berghahn monographs in French studies ;
volume 16 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Well into the 1980s, Strasbourg, France, was the site of a curious and little-noted experiment: Ungemach, a garden city dating back to the high days of eugenic experimentation that offered luxury living to couples who were deemed biologically fit and committed to contractual childbearing targets. Supported by public authorities, Ungemach aimed to accelerate human evolution by increasing procreation among eugenically selected parents. In this fascinating history, Paul-André Rosental gives an account of Ungemach's origins and its perplexing longevity. He casts a troubling light on the influence that eugenics continued to exert-even decades after being discredited as a pseudoscience-in realms as diverse as developmental psychology, postwar policymaking, and liberal-democratic ideals of personal fulfilment"-- |
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| Notas: | "Translated, adapted and updated version of the original French book Destins de l'eugénisme published by Editions du Seuil in Paris in 2016."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789205441 9781789205442 |