Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of ne

Evolutionary selection has been radically relaxed in the human species as a result of the development of civilization, science in general, and medicine in parti

This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of