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This course explores the pre-history and history of American eugenics, as well as its afterlives. It analyzes how Americans have used scientific ideas to grapple with questions of heredity and human worth from the Early Republic to the present. We will explore the social and political uses of phrenology, physiognomy, and eugenics, and consider how those scientifically discredited ideas do and do not shape modern studies in demography, genetics, social work, and genetic engineering.

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