God's eugenicist
Subtitle: Alexis Carrel and the sociobiology of decline
By: Andrés Horacio Reggiani.
Edition: 1st hardback ed.
Series: Berghahn monographs in French studies -- v. 6
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781845451721
Subjects: Carrel, Alexis, -- 1873-1944.; Surgeons -- France -- Biography.; Eugenics -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "At this time of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, worldwide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers. important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-231) and index.