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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: John S. HallerPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.346kg ISBN: 9780809319824ISBN 10: 0809319829 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 02 January 1996 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA thorough study of an eventful and highly significant era in the history of American science and in the history of race relations. --Journal of Southern History Author InformationJohn 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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