Description: God's Eugenicist : Alexis Carrel And the Sociobiology of Decline, Hardcover by Reggiani, Andres Horacio, ISBN 1845451724, ISBN-13 9781845451721, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, world-wide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers a fascinating and important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1), as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Carrel was among the most prestigious experimental surgeons of his time who also held deeply illiberal views. In Man, the Unknown (1935), he endorsed fascism and called for the elimination of the "unfit." Th became a huge international success, largely thanks to its promotion by Readers' Digest as well as by the author's friendship with Charles Lindbergh. In 1941, he went into the service of the French pro-German regime of Vichy, which appointed him to head an institution of eugenics research. His influence was remarkable, affecting radical Islamic groups as well Le Pen’s Front National that celebrated him as the "founder of ecology."
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Book Title: God's Eugenicist : Alexis Carrel And the Sociobiology of Decline
Number of Pages: 268 Pages
Publication Name: God's Eugenicist : Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline
Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject: Cultural Heritage, Europe / France, Modern / 20th Century, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Medical
Publication Year: 2006
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Author: Andrés Horacio Reggiani
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
