![]() Part two looks at eugenics today, or at least attempts to control the genetics of future individuals. It’s almost a relief to get to the end of this section and leave behind the deranged minds on display. There’s much to be appalled at, not least the startling extent of the USA’s sterilisation policies which saw 70,000 people sterilized from 1907 until the period after WWII (even then it didn’t come to an end). Part one is a fairly straightforward history of the eugenics movement, taking in pioneers in the USA and adopters in Nazi Germany. ![]() Katie Burton reviews Adam Rutherford’s new book, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics, published by W&NĪdam Rutherford’s latest book is split in half. ![]()
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