God's Eugenicist

Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline

Autor: Andres Horacio Reggiani

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The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, world-wide poli...

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Autor

Andres Horacio Reggiani

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2006

strony

268

EAN

9781845451721

ISBN

1845451724

Enbook ID

02440087

Wydawca

Berghahn Books

Waga

496

Wymiary

235 x 159 x 21

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The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, world-wide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers a fascinating and important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Carrel was among the most prestigious experimental surgeons of his time who also held deeply illiberal views. In "Man, the Unknown" (1935), he endorsed fascism and called for the elimination of the "unfit." The book became a huge international success, largely thanks to its promotion by Readers' Digest as well as by the author's friendship with Charles Lindbergh. In 1941, he went into the service of the French pro-German regime of Vichy, which appointed him to head an institution of eugenics research. His influence was remarkable, affecting radical Islamic groups as well Le Pen's Front National that celebrated him as the "founder of ecology." It includes a foreword by Herman Lebovics.

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