| Author |
Hanson, Clare |
| Year |
2012 |
| Publisher |
London: Routledge |
| Number of pages |
190 |
| ISBN |
9780415806985 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Publisher's Note:This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary
representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine,
social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary
texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between eugenic ideas acriss diverse
cultural fields, demonstrating the strength of the eugenic imagination. Challenging
assumptions that eugenics was fatally compromised by its association with Nazi atrocities,
or that it petered out in the context of changed social attitudes in an egalitarian
post-war society, the book demonstrates that eugenic thought not only persisted after
1945, but became more prominent.
