eugenics

Presents a facsimile of Charles Davenport's 1911 "Heredity in Relation to Eugenics," the first textbook on human genetics to appear in the twentieth century, and includes twelve essays that explore questions about genetic variation, mental illness, nature versus nurture, human evolution, and others that preoccupied Davenport and continue to challenge scholars a century later.

Essays explore the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project.

Explores the social dangers of biomedical genetics, addressing both the social and ethical issues related to the study and advancement of human genetics.

Chronicles the life of explorer, inventor, meteorologist, psychologist, and anthropologist Francis Galton, focusing on his contributions to diverse fields and his efforts to improve the scientific field.

Studies developments in human genetic research from the perspective of persons with mental disabilities and their families.

In the spring of 2002, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger traveled to Vienna to witness the burial of the preserved brains of over 700 handicapped children. The victims had been murdered in a "euthanasia" clinic as part of the Nazi eugenics program that many consider the opening act of the Holocaust.

"A bighearted dystopian novel about the corrosive effects of fear and the redemptive power of love by first time novelist Peyton Marshall"--.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.