# In the Name of Eugenics

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- Book: [In the Name of Eugenics](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-l-kevles/in-the-name-of-eugenics) ([In the Name of Eugenics.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-l-kevles/in-the-name-of-eugenics.md))
- Authors: [Daniel L. Kevles](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-l-kevles)
- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0783-150-7
- Published: 2013-05-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of " improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent...