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- catalog abstract "This book explores the development of hybrid corn, the history of eugenics, human genetics, the nature-nurture debate, the origins of the Marxian concept of proletarian science, the shift in the meaning of "fitness" in evolutionary theory, the practice of normal science in Nazi Germany, and the making and selling of science textbooks. While the topics are diverse, a common theme unites them - each explores links between biological science, social power, and public policy.".
- catalog contributor b10878400.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Eugenics and the left -- The nine lives of discredited data -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the origins of behavior genetics -- A debate that refuses to die -- Eugenic anxieties, social realities, and political choices -- Did eugenics rest on an elementary mistake? -- Eugenic origins of medical genetics -- Genes and contagious disease : the rise and fall of a metaphor -- PKU screening : competing agendas, converging stories.".
- catalog description "This book explores the development of hybrid corn, the history of eugenics, human genetics, the nature-nurture debate, the origins of the Marxian concept of proletarian science, the shift in the meaning of "fitness" in evolutionary theory, the practice of normal science in Nazi Germany, and the making and selling of science textbooks. While the topics are diverse, a common theme unites them - each explores links between biological science, social power, and public policy.".
- catalog extent "viii, 219 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "079143821X (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791438228 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in philosophy and biology".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series, philosophy and biology".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog subject "174/.25 21".
- catalog subject "1998 J-123".
- catalog subject "Eugenics History.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics Political aspects History.".
- catalog subject "Genetics, Medical History.".
- catalog subject "Human genetics Political aspects History.".
- catalog subject "Nature and nurture Political aspects History.".
- catalog subject "Politics.".
- catalog subject "QH431 .P34 1998".
- catalog subject "QZ 11.1 P324p 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Eugenics and the left -- The nine lives of discredited data -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the origins of behavior genetics -- A debate that refuses to die -- Eugenic anxieties, social realities, and political choices -- Did eugenics rest on an elementary mistake? -- Eugenic origins of medical genetics -- Genes and contagious disease : the rise and fall of a metaphor -- PKU screening : competing agendas, converging stories.".
- catalog title "The politics of heredity : essays on eugenics, biomedicine, and the nature-nurture debate / Diane B. Paul.".
- catalog type "text".