Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement

by Christine Rosen

With our success in mapping the human genome, the possibility of altering our genetic futures has given rise to difficult ethical questions. Although opponents of genetic manipulation frequently raise the specter of eugenics, our contemporary debates about bioethics often take place in a historical vacuum. In fact, American religious leaders raised similarly challenging ethical questions in the first half of the twentieth century.
Preaching Eugenics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019515679X
• ISBN13: 9780195156799
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"