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In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate a series of strange tools: an x-ray beam directed at dormant seeds, a drop of chromosome-altering colchicine on a flower bud, and a piece of radioactive cobalt in a field of growing crops. According to scientific and popular reports of the time, these mutation-inducing methods would generate variation on demand, in turn allowing breeders to genetically engineer crops and flowers to order. Creating a new crop or flower would soon be as straightforward as innovating any other modern industrial product. In Evolution Made to Order, Helen Anne Curry traces the history of America's pursuit of tools that could speed up evolution. It is an immersive journey through the scientific and social worlds of midcentury genetics and plant breeding and a compelling exploration of American cultures of innovation. As Curry reveals, the creation of genetic technologies was deeply entangled with other areas of technological innovation-from electromechanical to chemical to nuclear. An important study of biological research and innovation in America, Evolution Made to Order provides vital historical context for current worldwide ethical and policy debates over genetic engineering.
Plant mutation breeding --- Plant genetic engineering --- History --- Social aspects --- Genetic engineering --- agricultural biotechnology. --- biotechnology. --- evolution. --- genetic engineering. --- genetic technologies. --- mutation breeding. --- plant breeding. --- technological innovation.
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First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues to inform institutional and reproductive injustice. Alexandra Minna Stern draws on recently uncovered historical records to reveal patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and documents compelling individual experiences. With the addition of radically new and relevant research, this edition connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies.
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(Medicine) --- Twentieth Century Histories --- Twentieth Century History --- Negative Eugenics --- Positive Eugenics --- Eugenics, Negative --- Eugenics, Positive --- Selective Breeding --- Genetic Counseling --- Genetics, Medical --- Abuse, Human Rights --- Human Rights Abuse --- Rights Abuse, Human --- Rights Abuses, Human --- Human Rights --- Torture --- War Crimes --- Disadvantaged --- Patients, Underserved --- Populations, Underserved --- Sensitive Population Groups --- Sensitive Populations --- Group, Sensitive Population --- Groups, Sensitive Population --- Patient, Underserved --- Population Group, Sensitive --- Population Groups, Sensitive --- Population, Sensitive --- Population, Underserved --- Population, Vulnerable --- Populations, Sensitive --- Populations, Vulnerable --- Sensitive Population --- Sensitive Population Group --- Underserved Patient --- Underserved Patients --- Underserved Population --- Underserved Populations --- Vulnerable Population --- Compulsory Sterilization --- Forced Sterilization --- Involuntary Sterilization --- Compulsory Sterilizations --- Forced Sterilizations --- Involuntary Sterilizations --- Sterilization, Compulsory --- Sterilization, Forced --- Sterilizations, Compulsory --- Sterilizations, Forced --- Sterilizations, Involuntary --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- Disadvantaged Populations --- Disadvantaged Population --- Population, Disadvantaged --- Social Vulnerability --- Eugenics. --- History. --- 20th century politics. --- academia. --- academic. --- american history. --- american political history. --- bioethics. --- california asylums. --- california history. --- california political history. --- california womens prisons. --- eugenicists. --- eugenics in the 21st century. --- eugenics. --- forced sterilization. --- gender and sexuality. --- genetic technologies. --- historians. --- history. --- human rights. --- inmate sterilization. --- mental institutions. --- mexican american women. --- political history. --- politics. --- public health. --- race. --- reproductive harm. --- reproductive justice. --- us mexico relations.
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