The Politics of Eugenics.

This book analyzes whether the ""new debate on genetics"" owes a debt to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s. More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same ""eugenic rationale"" used in the 1930s is philosophical akin to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spektorowski, Alberto
Other Authors: Ireni-Saban, Liza
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Extremism and Democracy.
Subjects:
Eugenics.
Biopolitics.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Social policy.
Multiculturalism.
Eugénisme.
Biopolitique.
Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
Politique sociale.
Multiculturalisme.
public policy.
multiculturalism.
Biopolitics
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Eugenics
Multiculturalism
Social policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Politics of Eugenics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Eugenics and productive socialism; 2 From race hygiene to national-productivist hygiene
  • 3 The bioethical turn to biopolitics: the emergence of bio-nationalism; 4 The bio-regulation return of eugenics for a new century of massive immigration and multiculturalism; 5 European countries and eugenic productivism gospel-potential convergence trends in eugenic productivist population policy; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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