{"product_id":"9781350587861","title":"Britain’s Genetic Empire A Century of Eugenics","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBritain’s Genetic Empire\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Century of Eugenics\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDavid Peace\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Europe \/ Great Britain \/ 20th Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis open access book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003euncovers a hidden history of eugenics in Britain, challenging the widely held assumption that these ideas vanished in the wake of the Nazi medical crimes committed in its name during the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e Instead, \u003ci\u003eBritain's Genetic Empire\u003c\/i\u003e uses new archival evidence to reveal how eugenic thinking continued to shape British policies, identity, and public health into the late 20th century. Moving beyond the familiar histories of the Eugenics Society and Galton Laboratory, David Peace explores how eugenic ideas were embedded in the work of economists, doctors, scientists, and policymakers, influencing debates on poverty, 'racial fitness', national planning, and population health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first intellectual history to trace eugenics' transformation from the late Victorian fears of imperial decline to its post-war manifestations in genetic counselling and the 'biosocial' research of the 1980s on racial reproductive differences. It shows how eugenic ideas adapted to new concerns about class, heredity, and health as Britain's imperial power waned, finding fresh momentum with the rise of genetics as a scientific field extending beyond its historic disciplinary bounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time of rapid innovation in genomics, and with a resurgence of eugenic beliefs to support racism and conspiracy theories, \u003ci\u003eBritain's Genetic Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers critical insight into the historical (ab)uses of human heredity research and its continuing influence on contemporary bioethics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Hamburg.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid Peace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350587861\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e304\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51522029191308,"sku":"9781350587861","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350587861","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}