The Hour of Eugenics" – Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

TRAMA

This book addresses the scientific and social movement known as eugenics, a word invented in 1883 (from the Greek eugenes, meaning 'wellborn') by the British scientist Francis Galton to encompass the social uses to which knowledge of heredity could be put in order to achieve the goal of 'better breeding'.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780801497957
• Dimensioni: 227 x 13.11 x 178 mm Ø 334 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 210