Title: God's eugenicist
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Eugenics, Surgeons, Biography, History, Carrel, alexis, 1873-1944, Surgeons, biography, France, biography, Religion and Medicine, History, 20th Century, Physicians
Places: France
People: Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: RD27.35.C37 R44 2007