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God's Eugenicist: Alexis Carrel And the Sociobiology of Decline (Monographs in French Studies),Used
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The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faithbased, worldwide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentiethcentury Europe and America offers a fascinating and important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of Frenchborn physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (18731944), as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and rightwing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Carrel was among the most prestigious experimental surgeons of his time who also held deeply illiberal views. In Man, the Unknown (1935), he endorsed fascism and called for the elimination of the "unfit." The book became a huge international success, largely thanks to its promotion by Readers' Digest as well as by the author's friendship with Charles Lindbergh. In 1941, he went into the service of the French proGerman regime of Vichy, which appointed him to head an institution of eugenics research. His influence was remarkable, affecting radical Islamic groups as well Le Pens Front National that celebrated him as the "founder of ecology."
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