TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosental,Paul-André
AU  - Porter,Theodore M.
TI  - A Human Garden: French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation 
T2  - Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
SN  - 9781789205435
U1  - 363.9/209443954 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - France
KW  - Strasbourg
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Garden cities
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - alfred sauvy
KW  - biology
KW  - childbearing
KW  - childbirth
KW  - children
KW  - contemporary
KW  - democratic
KW  - developmental psychology
KW  - eugenics
KW  - experiment
KW  - forgotten history
KW  - france
KW  - frederick osborn
KW  - garden
KW  - guinea pigs
KW  - human evolution
KW  - john stuart mill
KW  - liberal
KW  - master race
KW  - modern history
KW  - morals
KW  - philosophy
KW  - postwar
KW  - problematic
KW  - procreation
KW  - pseudoscience
KW  - racism
KW  - research
KW  - scholarly
KW  - scientific
KW  - social studies
KW  - strasbourg
KW  - theorists
KW  - true story
KW  - ungemach
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Foreword --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I. The Intellectual and Political History of a Human Garden (1880s–1980s) --; Part II. Eugenics, Biopolitics and Welfare in a Transatlantic Perspective (1914–1968) --; Part III. Eugenics and Developmental Psychology: A Neglected Legacy --; Conclusion --; Epilogue. Forgetting Eugenics: Back to the Ungemach Gardens --; Appendix. Works by Abel Ruffenach, Pseudonym of Alfred Dachert --; Archival Sources --; Bibliography --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects and Institutions; restricted access
N2  - Well into the 1980s, Strasbourg, France, was the site of a curious and little-noted experiment: Ungemach, a garden city dating back to the high days of eugenic experimentation that offered luxury living to couples who were deemed biologically fit and committed to contractual childbearing targets. Supported by public authorities, Ungemach aimed to accelerate human evolution by increasing procreation among eugenically selected parents. In this fascinating history, Paul-André Rosental gives an account of Ungemach’s origins and its perplexing longevity. He casts a troubling light on the influence that eugenics continues to exert—even decades after being discredited as a pseudoscience—in realms as diverse as developmental psychology, postwar policymaking, and liberal-democratic ideals of personal fulfilment
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789205442?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789205442
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789205442/original
ER  -