Eugenics and the nature-nurture debate in the twentieth century
Auteur :
Gillette, A.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230108455
Date de publication :
18 janv. 2011
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.