A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

John Waller describes the changing ideas concerning heredity from antiquity to the modern biological understanding, considering both the efforts over the centur

Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and

Racism is ever present today, and it has become common now to refer to a variety of racisms, from biological to cultural, colour-blind, and structural racisms.

This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of