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Author : Charles Webster
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Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Biology, Medicine and Society 1840-1940 written by Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1312 pages
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Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard A. Soloway
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469611198
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Demography and Degeneration written by Richard A. Soloway and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that "like tends to beget like," eugenicists developed and promoted a theory of biosocial engineering through selective reproduction. Soloway shows that the appeal of eugenics to the middle and upper classes of British society was closely linked to recurring concerns about the relentless drop in fertility and the rapid spread of birth control practices from the 1870s to World War II. Demography and Degeneration considers how differing scientific and pseudoscientific theories of biological inheritance became popularized and enmeshed in the prolonged, often contentious national debate about "race suicide" and "the dwindling family." Demographic statistics demonstrated that birthrates were declining among the better-educated, most successful classes while they remained high for the poorest, least-educated portion of the population. For many people steeped in the ideas of social Darwinism, eugenicist theories made this decline all the more alarming: they feared that falling birthrates among the "better" classes signfied a racial decline and degeneration that might prevent Britain from successfully negotiating the myriad competive challenges facing the nation in the twentieth century. Although the organized eugenics movement remained small and elitist throughout most of its history, this study demonstrates how pervasive eugenic assumptions were in the middle and upper reaches of British society, at least until World War II. It also traces the important role of eugenics in the emergence of the modern family planning movement and the formulation of population policies in the interwar years.
Author : Ross L Jones
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925984702
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anatomists of Empire written by Ross L Jones and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe collecting, cataloguing and constructing morphologies of the biological world with the aim of weaving these into a new vision of bio-ecology that links humans to their deep past as well as their evolutionary niche. They dissected human bodies and scrutinised the living, explaining for the first time the intricacies of human biology. They placed the body in its environment and gave it a history, thus creating an ecological synthesis in striking contrast to the model of humanity that they inherited as students. Their version of human development and history profoundly influenced public opinion as they wrote prolifically for the press; they published bestsellers on human origins and evolution; they spoke eloquently at public meetings and on the radio. They wanted their anatomical insight to shape public policy. And by changing popular views of race and environment, they moulded attitudes as to what it meant to be human in a post-Darwinian world—thus providing a potent critique of racism.
Author : Rosemary Pringle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521578127
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sex and Medicine written by Rosemary Pringle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful 1998 book uses the experiences of women doctors to explore whether they make a difference.
Author : Deborah Brunton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719067358
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Medicine Transformed written by Deborah Brunton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the social history of medicine in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, set within its political, cultural, intellectual and economic contexts
Author : Kent Hollingsworth
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813115474
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Kentucky Thoroughbred written by Kent Hollingsworth and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent Hollingsworth captures the flavor and atmosphere of the Sport of Kings in the dramatic account of the development of the Thoroughbred in Kentucky. Ranging from frontier days, when racing was conducted in open fields as horse-to-horse challenges between proud owners, to the present, when a potential Triple Crown champion may sell for millions of dollars, The Kentucky Thoroughbred considers ten outstanding stallions that dominated the shape of racing in their time as representing the many eras of Kentucky Thoroughbred breeding. No less colorful are his accounts of the owners, breeders, trainers, and jockeys associated with these Thoroughbreds, a group devoted to a sport filled with high adventure and great hazards. First published in 1976, this popular Kentucky classic has been expanded and brought up to date in this new edition.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317679490
Total Pages : 2424 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 2424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set examines sport and leisure from a social science viewpoint. The volumes included, originally published between 1984 and 1991 take a cross-disciplinary approach to explore the social, political and cultural roles of sport in today's society. They cover issues as diverse as inequality, nationalism, gender, and commercialisation and engage with a range of academic disciplines including cultural studies, history, politics and sociology.
Author : Kathleen McCrone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679644
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women (RLE Sports Studies) written by Kathleen McCrone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was a golden age in British sports. Not only were sports immensely popular, but they began to assume the forms and qualities that still characterise them today. Moreover, the latter part of the century saw a significant participation in sports by women, and this book provides the first overall examination of this early development and the social changes that it helped to bring about. Since women’s entry into sports was chiefly a consequence of the campaign for better female education, the book begins with an account of sports at the Oxbridge women’s colleges, at the girls' public schools and at the new women’s physical training colleges. It then examines team sports such as hockey, lacrosse, and cricket and individual sports such as tennis, golf and cycling. Other chapters discuss the medical attitudes and prejudices toward women’s participation in sports and the role of sports in changing female dress.
Author : David Paul Crook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466455
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Darwinism, War and History written by David Paul Crook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting reinterpretation of Social Darwinism, questioning conventional assumptions and proffering an alternative reading of a discourse of 'peace biology'.
