Demography and Degeneration
Subtitle: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 8, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780807845547
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Population & demography; Sociology; Life Sciences - General; Science; Science/Mathematics; Social Science; Europe - Great Britain - General; General; British studies; eugenics; birthrate; family size; hereditarian determinism; biosocial engineering; selective reproduction; birth control; social Darwinism; Social Science / Demography; Demography
First sentence: The waning years of the Victorian era and the approach of a new age aroused a great deal of commentary on the recent past and anxious speculation about the future.