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Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been translated into more than 40 different languages. The series began in 1995, and now covers a wide variety of topics in every discipline. The VSI library now contains over 450 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything from Indian philosophy to psychology and American history and relativity—and continues to grow in every subject area. Very Short Introductions available now: ACCOUNTING Christopher Nobes ANAESTHESIA Aidan O’Donnell ADOLESCENCE Peter K. Smith ANARCHISM Colin Ward ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANCIENT ASSYRIA Karen Radner AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw Eddie S. Glaude Jr ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART AND AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHITECTURE Christina Riggs John Parker and Richard Rathbone ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge AFRICAN RELIGIONS THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Jacob K. Olupona Amanda H. Podany AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas AGRICULTURE Paul Brassley and ANCIENT WARFARE Richard Soffe Harry Sidebottom ALEXANDER THE GREAT ANGELS David Albert Jones Hugh Bowden ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman ALGEBRA Peter M. Higgins THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair AMERICAN HISTORY Paul S. Boyer THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AMERICAN IMMIGRATION Peter Holland David A. Gerber ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY THE ANTARCTIC Klaus Dodds G. Edward White ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller AMERICAN POLITICAL ANXIETY Daniel Freeman and HISTORY Donald Critchlow Jason Freeman AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel Paul Foster AMERICAN POLITICS Richard M. Valelly ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne Charles O. Jones ARISTOCRACY William Doyle THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes Robert J. Allison ART HISTORY Dana Arnold AMERICAN SLAVERY ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland Heather Andrea Williams ASTROBIOLOGY David C. Catling THE AMERICAN WEST Stephen Aron ASTROPHYSICS James Binney AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY ATHEISM Julian Baggini Susan Ware AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick AUSTRALIA Kenneth Morgan CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy AUTISM Uta Frith CIVIL ENGINEERING THE AVANT GARDE David Cottington David Muir Wood THE AZTECS Davíd Carrasco CLASSICAL LITERATURE William Allan BABYLONIA Trevor Bryce CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY BACTERIA Sebastian G. B. Amyes Helen Morales BARTHES Jonathan Culler CLASSICS Mary Beard and THE BEATS David Sterritt John Henderson BEAUTY Roger Scruton CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard BESTSELLERS John Sutherland CLIMATE Mark Maslin THE BIBLE John Riches CLIMATE CHANGE Mark Maslin BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Eric H. Cline Richard Passingham BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon BLACK HOLES Katherine Blundell COLONIAL AMERICA Alan Taylor BLOOD Chris Cooper COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN THE BLUES Elijah Wald LITERATURE Rolena Adorno THE BODY Chris Shilling COMBINATORICS Robin Wilson THE BOOK OF MORMON COMEDY Matthew Bevis Terryl Givens COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes BORDERS Alexander C. Diener and COMPLEXITY John H. Holland Joshua Hagen THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea COMPUTER SCIENCE THE BRICS Andrew F. Cooper Subrata Dasgupta THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION CONFUCIANISM Daniel K. Gardner Martin Loughlin THE CONQUISTADORS THE BRITISH EMPIRE Ashley Jackson Matthew Restall and BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright Felipe Fernández-Armesto BUDDHA Michael Carrithers CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm BUDDHISM Damien Keown CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown CONTEMPORARY ART BYZANTIUM Peter Sarris Julian Stallabrass CANCER Nicholas James CONTEMPORARY FICTION CAPITALISM James Fulcher Robert Eaglestone CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY CAUSATION Stephen Mumford and Simon Critchley Rani Lill Anjum COPERNICUS Owen Gingerich THE CELL Terence Allen and CORAL REEFS Charles Sheppard Graham Cowling CORPORATE SOCIAL THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe RESPONSIBILITY Jeremy Moon CHAOS Leonard Smith CORRUPTION Leslie Holmes CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins COSMOLOGY Peter Coles CHILD PSYCHOLOGY Usha Goswami CRIME FICTION Richard Bradford CHILDREN’S LITERATURE CRIMINAL JUSTICE Julian V. Roberts Kimberley Reynolds CRITICAL THEORY CHINESE LITERATURE Sabina Knight Stephen Eric Bronner CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long Sean Murphy CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead CRYSTALLOGRAPHY A. M. Glazer THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ETHICS Simon Blackburn Richard Curt Kraus ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Timothy Rice DADA AND SURREALISM THE ETRUSCANS Christopher Smith David Hopkins EUGENICS Philippa Levine DANTE Peter Hainsworth and THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder David Robey and Simon Usherwood DARWIN Jonathan Howard EVOLUTION Brian and THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim Deborah Charlesworth DECOLONIZATION Dane Kennedy EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick EXPLORATION Stewart A. Weaver DERRIDA Simon Glendinning THE EYE Michael Land DESCARTES Tom Sorell FAMILY LAW Jonathan Herring DESERTS Nick Middleton FASCISM Kevin Passmore DESIGN John Heskett FASHION Rebecca Arnold DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY FEMINISM Margaret Walters Lewis Wolpert FILM Michael Wood THE DEVIL Darren Oldridge FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak DIASPORA Kevin Kenny THE FIRST WORLD WAR DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone Michael Howard DINOSAURS David Norman FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FOOD John Krebs DOCUMENTARY FILM FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Patricia Aufderheide David Canter DREAMING J. Allan Hobson FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser DRUGS Les Iversen FORESTS Jaboury Ghazoul DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe FOSSILS Keith Thomson EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly FOUCAULT Gary Gutting THE EARTH Martin Redfern THE FOUNDING FATHERS EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE Tim Lenton R. B. Bernstein ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer EDUCATION Gary Thomas FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch FREE WILL Thomas Pink EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons Paul Langford THE FRENCH REVOLUTION THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball William Doyle EMOTION Dylan Evans FREUD Anthony Storr EMPIRE Stephen Howe FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven ENGELS Terrell Carver FUNGI Nicholas P. Money ENGINEERING David Blockley GALAXIES John Gribbin ENGLISH LITERATURE Jonathan Bate GALILEO Stillman Drake THE ENLIGHTENMENT GAME THEORY Ken Binmore John Robertson GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh ENTREPRENEURSHIP GENES Jonathan Slack Paul Westhead and Mike Wright GENIUS Andrew Robinson ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS GEOGRAPHY John Matthews and Stephen Smith David Herbert ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds Andrew Dobson GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle EPICUREANISM Catherine Wilson GERMAN PHILOSOPHY EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci Andrew Bowie GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY INFECTIOUS DISEASE Marta L. Wayne Robert C. Allen and Benjamin M. Bolker GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger INFORMATION Luciano Floridi GOD John Bowker INNOVATION Mark Dodgson and GOETHE Ritchie Robertson David Gann THE GOTHIC Nick Groom INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir INTERNATIONAL LAW THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND Vaughan Lowe THE NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway INTERNATIONAL HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson MIGRATION Khalid Koser HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Paul Wilkinson Cheryl A. Wall INTERNATIONAL THE HEBREW BIBLE AS LITERATURE SECURITY Christopher S. Browning Tod Linafelt IRAN Ali M. Ansari HEGEL Peter Singer ISLAM Malise Ruthven HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein HERMENEUTICS Jens Zimmermann ISOTOPES Rob Ellam HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts ITALIAN LITERATURE HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson Peter Hainsworth and David Robey HINDUISM Kim Knott JESUS Richard Bauckham HISTORY John H. Arnold JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY JUDAISM Norman Solomon Michael Hoskin JUNG Anthony Stevens THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY KABBALAH Joseph Dan William H. Brock KAFKA Ritchie Robertson THE HISTORY OF LIFE KANT Roger Scruton Michael Benton KEYNES Robert Skidelsky THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Jacqueline Stedall KNOWLEDGE Jennifer Nagel THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE THE KORAN Michael Cook William Bynum LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE THE HISTORY OF TIME Ian H. Thompson Leofranc Holford-Strevens LANDSCAPES AND HIV and AIDS Alan Whiteside GEOMORPHOLOGY HOBBES Richard Tuck Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles HOLLYWOOD Peter Decherney LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson HORMONES Martin Luck LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark HUMAN ANATOMY LAW Raymond Wacks Leslie Klenerman THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood Peter Atkins HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham LEADERSHIP Keith Grint HUMANISM Stephen Law LEARNING Mark Haselgrove HUME A. J. Ayer LEIBNIZ Maria Rosa Antognazza HUMOUR Noël Carroll LIBERALISM Michael Freeden THE ICE AGE Jamie Woodward LIGHT Ian Walmsley IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo INDIAN CINEMA LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews Ashish Rajadhyaksha LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler LOCKE John Dunn MODERN LATIN AMERICAN LOGIC Graham Priest LITERATURE LOVE Ronald de Sousa Roberto González Echevarría MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner MODERN WAR Richard English MADNESS Andrew Scull MODERNISM Christopher Butler MAGIC Owen Davies MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Aysha Divan MAGNA CARTA Nicholas Vincent and Janice A. Royds MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell MOLECULES Philip Ball MALTHUS Donald Winch THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi MANAGEMENT John Hendry MOONS David A. Rothery MAO Delia Davin MORMONISM MARINE BIOLOGY Philip V. Mladenov Richard Lyman Bushman THE MARQUIS DE SADE MOUNTAINS Martin F. Price John Phillips MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi MARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell MUSIC Nicholas Cook MARX Peter Singer MYTH Robert A. Segal MATERIALS Christopher Hall THE NAPOLEONIC WARS MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers Mike Rapport THE MEANING OF LIFE Terry Eagleton NATIONALISM Steven Grosby MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer MEDICAL LAW Charles Foster NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger and MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham Ravi Roy and Ralph A. Griffiths NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli and MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Michele Catanzaro Elaine Treharne THE NEW TESTAMENT MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Luke Timothy Johnson John Marenbon THE NEW TESTAMENT AS MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster LITERATURE Kyle Keefer METAPHYSICS Stephen Mumford NEWTON Robert Iliffe THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner Alan Knight NINETEENTH-CENTURY MICHAEL FARADAY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and Frank A. J. L. James H. C. G. Matthew MICROBIOLOGY Nicholas P. Money THE NORMAN CONQUEST MICROECONOMICS Avinash Dixit George Garnett MICROSCOPY Terence Allen NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS THE MIDDLE AGES Miri Rubin Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green MILITARY JUSTICE Eugene R. Fidell NORTHERN IRELAND MINERALS David Vaughan Marc Mulholland MODERN ART David Cottington NOTHING Frank Close MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter NUCLEAR PHYSICS Frank Close MODERN DRAMA NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr NUCLEAR WEAPONS MODERN FRANCE Joseph M. Siracusa Vanessa R. Schwartz NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta NUTRITION David A. Bender MODERN ITALY Anna Cento Bull OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger MODERN JAPAN THE OLD TESTAMENT Christopher Goto-Jones Michael D. Coogan THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman QUANTUM THEORY ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch John Polkinghorne PANDEMICS Christian W. McMillen RACISM Ali Rattansi PAGANISM Owen Davies RADIOACTIVITY Claudio Tuniz THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI RASTAFARI Ennis B. Edmonds CONFLICT Martin Bunton THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close REALITY Jan Westerhoff PAUL E. P. Sanders THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall PEACE Oliver P. Richmond RELATIVITY Russell Stannard PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay RELIGION IN AMERICA Timothy Beal THE PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig RENAISSANCE ART PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC Geraldine A. Johnson WORLD Peter Adamson REVOLUTIONS Jack A. Goldstone PHILOSOPHY OF LAW RHETORIC Richard Toye Raymond Wacks RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RITUAL Barry Stephenson Samir Okasha RIVERS Nick Middleton PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards ROBOTICS Alan Winfield PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway PILGRIMAGE Ian Reader THE ROMAN EMPIRE PLAGUE Paul Slack Christopher Kelly PLANETS David A. Rothery THE ROMAN REPUBLIC PLANTS Timothy Walker David M. Gwynn PLATE TECTONICS Peter Molnar ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber PLATO Julia Annas ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller RUSSELL A. C. Grayling POLITICS Kenneth Minogue RUSSIAN HISTORY Geoffrey Hosking POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION POSTSTRUCTURALISM S. A. Smith Catherine Belsey SAVANNAS Peter A. Furley PREHISTORY Chris Gosden SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and PRESOCRATIC Eve Johnstone PHILOSOPHY Catherine Osborne SCHOPENHAUER PRIVACY Raymond Wacks Christopher Janaway PROBABILITY John Haigh SCIENCE AND RELIGION PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent Thomas Dixon PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll SCIENCE FICTION David Seed PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION PSYCHOANALYSIS Daniel Pick Lawrence M. Principe PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and SCOTLAND Rab Houston Freda McManus SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier PSYCHOTHERAPY Tom Burns and SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES Eva Burns-Lundgren Bart van Es PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt Stella Z. Theodoulou and Ravi K. Roy THE SILK ROAD James A. Millward PUBLIC HEALTH Virginia Berridge SLANG Jonathon Green PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer SLEEP Steven W. Lockley and THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion Russell G. Foster SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TIBETAN BUDDHISM ANTHROPOLOGY Matthew T. Kapstein John Monaghan and Peter Just TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard J. Crisp TRAGEDY Adrian Poole SOCIAL WORK Sally Holland and TRANSLATION Matthew Reynolds Jonathan Scourfield THE TROJAN WAR Eric H. Cline SOCIALISM Michael Newman TRUST Katherine Hawley SOCIOLINGUISTICS John Edwards THE TUDORS John Guy SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan SOUND Mike Goldsmith THE UNITED NATIONS THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell Jussi M. Hanhimäki THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THE U.S. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie Helen Graham THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi Linda Greenhouse SPINOZA Roger Scruton UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake THE VIKINGS Julian Richards SPORT Mike Cronin VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford STARS Andrew King WAR AND TECHNOLOGY STATISTICS David J. Hand Alex Roland STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack WATER John Finney STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING THE WELFARE STATE David Garland David Blockley WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE STUART BRITAIN John Morrill Stanley Wells SUPERCONDUCTIVITY WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill Stephen Blundell WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling SYMMETRY Ian Stewart WORK Stephen Fineman TAXATION Stephen Smith WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman TEETH Peter S. Ungar THE WORLD TRADE TERRORISM Charles Townshend ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar THEATRE Marvin Carlson WORLD WAR II Gerhard L. Weinberg THEOLOGY David F. Ford WRITING AND SCRIPT THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr Andrew Robinson THOUGHT Tim Bayne ZIONISM Michael Stanislawski Available soon: MEASUREMENT David Hand TELESCOPES Geoff Cottrell AGEING Nancy A. Pachana ROCKS Jan Zalasiewicz PAIN Rob Boddice For more information visit our website www.oup.com/vsi/ Philippa Levine EUgENICS A Very Short Introduction 1
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