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Our Island Stories

Country Walks through Colonial Britain
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR15,00

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-199983-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum01.05.2025
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 129 mm, Höhe 198 mm, Dicke 15 mm
Gewicht200 g
Artikel-Nr.29357796
KatalogLibri
Datenquelle-Nr.A49615665
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This is a highly readable and well put together introduction to eugenics's past and to its present. Overall, Rutherford writes engagingly and expertly on a subject that is central to his research and the place where he practises it (UCL, Rutherford's university, was at the forefront of early 20th century eugenics research). For me, the book is most interesting on the state of eugenics thinking today as Rutherford explains and unpacks some of the complicated moral quandaries now faced by the medical profession and parents alike when it comes to things like so-called designer babies. Above all what he brings out is the deep complexity of the science which makes our media-filtered understanding of the topic seem too simplistic for words.
There are just a few occasions (most notably in the historical section) when Rutherford's style can be too chummy and once or twice he could do with defining terms more clearly but overall this is an excellent introdution to a compley and emotive topic

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Corinne Fowler is Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Between 2018 and 2022, Fowler directed a child-led history and writing project called 'Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted'. She also co-authored the 2020 National Trust report on its country houses' historical links to the British Empire. Her most recent book is Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections.