Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Adam Rutherford

288 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past? Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fanta...

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