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Tables of Contents for The Politics of Heredity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
1. Introduction
1
10
2. Eugenics and the Left
11
26
3. The Nine Lives of Discredited Data
37
16
4. The Rockefeller Foundation and the Origins of Behavior Genetics
53
28
5. A Debate That Refuses to Die
81
14
6. Eugenic Anxieties, Social Realities, and Political Choices
95
22
7. Did Eugenics Rest on an Elementary Mistake?
117
16
8. Eugenic Origins of Medical Genetics
133
24
9. Genes and Contagious Disease: The Rise and Fall of a Metaphor
157
16
10. PKU Screening: Competing Agendas, Converging Stories
173
14
References
187
22
Index
209