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The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics.

219 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1998

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April 10, 2019
One particularly good essay (among a lot of thoughtul essays) shows how basic Hardy-Weinberg reasoning defeats the eugenics segregation/sterilization program.
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