Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900 - Tapa blanda

Haller, John S.

 
9780809319824: Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900
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ISBN 10: 0809319829 ISBN 13: 9780809319824
Editorial: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996

Sinopsis

In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the discovery in 1900 of Gregor Mendel’s experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr., shows the relationship between scientific ""conviction"" and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas and who sought to apply those ideas to comparative morality, health, and the physiognomy of nonwhite races. During this period, the natural and social scientists of the day not only accepted without question the genetic and cultural superiority of the Caucasian; they also asserted that the Caucasian race held a monopoly on evolutionary progress, arguing that ""inferior races"" were no more than evolutionary survivors doomed by their genetic legacy to remain outcasts from evolution. Hereditarians and evolutionists believed that ""less fit"" human races were perishing from the rigors of civilization’s struggle and competition. Indeed, racial inferiority lay at the very foundation of the evolutionary framework and, remaining there, rose to the pinnacle of ""truth"" with the myth of scientific certainty.

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John S. Haller, Jr., is the author of Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825–1939 and Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790–1925, both available from Southern Illinois University Press.

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In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin's 'Origin Of Species' and the discovery of Gregor Mendel's experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr. shows the relationship between scientific 'conviction' and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas and who sought to apply those ideas to comparative morality, health, and the physiognomy of nonwhite races.

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Editorial
Southern Illinois University Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0809319829
ISBN 13 
9780809319824
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Número de páginas
248
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