{"product_id":"the-eugenic-mind-project-isbn-9780262542708","title":"The Eugenic Mind Project","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to perceived threats of criminality, moral degeneration, feeble-mindedness, and \"the rising tide of color,\" eugenic laws and social policies aimed to better the human race by regulating reproductive choice through science and technology. In this book, Rob Wilson examines eugenic thought and practice--from forced sterilization to prenatal screening--drawing on his experience working with eugenics survivors.  Using the social sciences' standpoint theory as a framework to understand the intersection of eugenics, disability, social inclusiveness, and human variation, Wilson focuses on those who have lived through a eugenic past and those confronted by the legacy of eugenic thinking today. By doing so, he brings eugenics from the distant past to the ongoing present. Wilson discusses such topics as the conceptualization of eugenic traits; the formulation of laws regulating immigration and marriage and requiring sexual sterilization; the depiction of the targets of eugenics as \"subhuman\";  the systematic construction of a concept of normality; the eugenic logic in prenatal screening and contemporary bioethics; and the incorporation of eugenics and disability into standpoint theory.I Eugenic Activities: Probing Eugenics 1 \u003cbr\u003e1 Standpointing Eugenics 3\u003cbr\u003e2 Characterizing Eugenics 25\u003cbr\u003e3 Specifying Eugenic Traits 51\u003cbr\u003e4 Subhumanizing the Targets of Eugenics 77\u003cbr\u003eII Eugenic Variations: The Persistence of Eugenics 99\u003cbr\u003e5 Where Do Ideas of Human Variation Come From? 101\u003cbr\u003e6 A Socio-cognitive Framework for Marked Variation 121\u003cbr\u003e7 Black Doors, Newgenics, and Eugenics Underground 141\u003cbr\u003e8 Eugenics as Wrongful Accusation 167\u003cbr\u003eIII Eugenic Voices: Knowing Agency at the Margins 193\u003cbr\u003e9 Knowing Agency 195\u003cbr\u003e10 Eugenics Unbound: Survivorship for the Subhuman 213\u003cbr\u003eNotes 235\u003cbr\u003eReferences 271\u003cbr\u003eIndex 297Robert A. Wilson is Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University, the author of \u003ci\u003eGenes and the Agents of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e and of \u003ci\u003eExplanation and Cognition\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). He directed the project that built EugenicsArchive.ca and is a director and the executive producer of the documentary \u003ci\u003eSurviving Eugenics.\u003c\/i\u003eAn examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived  eugenics.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302639948005,"sku":"NP9780262542708","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542708.jpg?v=1767739230","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-eugenic-mind-project-isbn-9780262542708","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}