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genetics and the uses of human heredity

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.

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In the name of eugenics

genetics and the uses of human heredity

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.

by Daniel J. Kevles

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• 1 Have read

Traces the history of eugenics, the science of improving human beings by exploiting theories of heredity, from its late-nineteenth-century origins to the present, addressing such controversial issues as cloning and genetic engineering.

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Book Details

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-405) and index.
Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

Published in

Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class

304.5

Library of Congress

HQ751 .K48 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination

xiii, 426 p. ;

Number of pages

426

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