04361nam a22005295i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001700153072001600170072002300186072001500209100008000224245013400304250001800438264007900456300006500535336002600600337002600626338003600652347002400688490006700712505025600779520223301035650002203268650002803290650002303318650002003341650002003361650002103381650002403402650003603426650002503462650002003487650002303507650002003530710003403550773002603584776003603610776003603646776003603682830006703718856004603785978-3-031-72290-5DE-He21320251030113304.0cr nn 008mamaa241109s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317229057 a10.1007/978-3-031-72290-52doi 4aQ124.6-127.2 7aPDX2bicssc 7aSCI0340002bisacsh 7aPDX2thema1 aRedvaldsen, David.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut12aA History of British Eugenics since 1865h[electronic resource] :bFrom Francis Galton to Designer Babies /cby David Redvaldsen.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIX, 331 p. 21 illus., 15 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aMedicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History,x2947-91500 a1. Introduction -- 2. Francis Galton and the Early Days of Eugenics -- 3. The Galton Laboratory until 1945 -- 4. The Eugenics Society until 1945 -- 5. Eugenics between 1945 and 1990 -- 6. Eugenics and New Technologies of Reproduction -- 7. Conclusion.  a“In this deeply researched and original book, Redvaldsen advances a political assessment of eugenics in Britain, offering an analysis of the political attitudes and efforts of its main protagonists and the institutions through which they operated.” —Daniel J. Kevles, Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity “David Redvaldsen reconstructs the enduring history of British eugenics in vivid detail, outlining its transformations in response to evolutionary theories. Far from fading after 1945, he shows how eugenics has a capacity to update itself, enduring until the present day.” —Paul Weindling, Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, and author of Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s. It considers the two institutions promoting the doctrine: the Galton Laboratory attached to the University of London; and the Eugenics Society. It charts internal and ideological changes across more than a century, seeing eugenics as primarily a political movement. The Galton Laboratory published detailed studies of heredity. It transformed itself into a centre for medical genetics after the Second World War. As early as the 1920s, the Eugenics Society was the mainspring of the doctrine, formulating what became the British version of an international ideology. Its support for sterilization in the 1930s eroded the kudos it had gained in policy-making circles. From the 1960s, organized eugenics was especially a forum for learned and popular discussion of biology and sociology. Medical advances after 1970 aided its continuation, notably the growth of assisted reproductive technologies. The book presents British eugenics as mostly shaped by domestic concerns, offering new revelations and interpretations with the capacity to readjust historical thinking. It also covers contemporary bioethical and political issues aligned to eugenics. David Redvaldsen is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Agder, in Norway. 0aSciencexHistory. 0aGreat BritainxHistory. 0aMedicinexHistory. 0aSocial history. 0aWorld politics. 0aHistory, Modern.14aHistory of Science.24aHistory of Britain and Ireland.24aHistory of Medicine.24aSocial History.24aPolitical History.24aModern History.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303172289908iPrinted edition:z978303172291208iPrinted edition:z9783031722929 0aMedicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History,x2947-915040uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72290-5