Eugenia: a utopia da sociedade pura - de Darwin a Hitler

Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler
Andre Pichot

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"ANDRE PICHOT, researcher at the CNRS in Strasbourg, is one of France's leading historians of science and a frequent contributor to journals and national newspapers. He is the author of numerous works, including Histoire de la notion de vie and Histoire de"

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As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics. How did the notions of "race" and "ethnic group," under the cover of scientific legitimacy, get used for political ends? This work retraces the history of biological conceptions of society and their racist and eugenicist applications from the end of the nineteenth century to the post-Second World War epoch. André Pichot analyzes the relationship between science, politics and ideology, through the examination of specific cases: from Nazism to the various eugenicist research programs launched or financed by eminent scientific organizations from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. And, today, with the mapping of the human genome and rapid advances in gene therapies, he warns that the dream of a "pure society" is in danger of resurrection.

About the Author

André Pichot, researcher at the CNRS in Strasbourg, is one of France's leading historians of science and a frequent contributor to journals and national newspapers. He is the author of numerous works, including Histoire de la notion de vie and Histoire de la notion de gène.

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NOTA IMPERTINENTE DESTE BLOGGER:

Pichot não faz parte do movimento do Design Inteligente, mas é um exemplo de que há outros acadêmicos que resistem e expõem as implicações e consequências funestas do darwinismo. Outro livro sobre o assunto é o From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany de Richard Weikart.

Eugenia, teu nome pós-moderno é bioengenharia...