A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

• Acknowledgements


• List of Illustrations


• Chapter 1: The World of Eugenics


• Chapter 2: Intelligence


• Chapter 3: Reproduction


• Chapter 4: Race, Class, and Gender


• Chapter 5: Eugenics after 1945


• References


• Further Reading


• Index

Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and the Co-Director of the Program in British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics and she has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and British Empire history, as well as on science, sexuality, and medicine.