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OverviewBreeding charts more than two thousand years of ideas about the nature of sex and heredity. From the speculations of the ancient, medieval and early modern worlds to the birth of genetics in the modern age, John Waller examines how we came to solve one of the greatest of enigmas: why offspring tend to look like their parents. But this book goes further than telling a story of scientific advance. It also explores the social and political realities which often determined how people used the concept of heredity. It reveals how, from Plato's Republic to the modern IQ and race debate, the notion that some qualities of body and mind are inborn has been used to justify the supremacy of social elites and the racist ideologies of those who have profited from slavery and colonial expansion. This is a history of scientific developments, ideological inventions, and how the two have changed one another. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Waller (Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Michigan State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.003kg ISBN: 9780199239214ISBN 10: 0199239215 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 01 January 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsPart 1: Mary Toft's Rabbits and Noah's Sons: early modern ideas of heredity 1: Bred in the bone 2: The ideology of blood 3: Thinking about race: Moors, slaves and native Americans Part 2: Progress and Predispositions 4: Polydactyly, preformation and racial science 5: The invention of progress 6: The patrician's malady and other afflictions 7: Bakewell's sheep: the vogue for animal breeding Part 3: Good and bad blood in the Nineteenth Century 8: Progress and decay 9: Breeding in and out 10: Monads, men and mockingbirds 11: Degeneration and dire predictions 12: 'Galaxies of geniuses' Part 4: Eugenics, Genetics and UNESCO Man 13: The gospel spreads 14: From heredity to genetics 15: Edging towards disaster 16: 'Lives not worth living' 17: The Double Helix and beyond 18: The demise of post-war consensus Conclusion: a distant mirror?ReviewsAuthor InformationJohn Waller was educated at the universities of Oxford and London, and is now associate professor of the history of medicine at Michigan State University. He is the author of a number of books and articles on the history of science, medicine, and child warfare, including Fabulous Science (OUP, 2002), The Discovery of the Germ (Columbia University Press, 2005), and The Real Oliver Twist (Icon Books, 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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