ABSTRACT

This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|51 pages

The eugenics education society

The tradition, the setting and the programme

chapter 2|38 pages

The age of pedigrees

The methodology of eugenics, 1900–20

chapter 3|50 pages

Ideology and method

R.A. Fisher and research in eugenics

chapter 4|50 pages

The attack from the left

Marxism and the new mathematical techniques

chapter 6|13 pages

Epilogue and conclusion