Greg Patmore
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today as the advances in genetics in the last thirty years have brought the idea of population purification back...