{"id":11865,"date":"2022-03-10T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=201592"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:37:08","slug":"eugenics-a-toxic-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/eugenics-a-toxic-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics: a toxic history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Geneticist Adam Rutherford speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about the dark, and often surprising, history of the eugenics movement, from \u2018best baby\u2019 fairs and population control to the Nazi \u2018euthanasia\u2019 programme. He discusses the ideas behind the ideology, and how its implementation has had devastating impacts.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-201592-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Eugenics-88778b1.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Eugenics-88778b1.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Eugenics-88778b1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Adam Rutherford is the author of <em>Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics<\/em> (Orion, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/control-the-dark-history-and-troubling-present-of-eugenics\/9781474622387&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Faster-Stronger-Smarter-Troubling-Eugenics\/dp\/1474622380?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/control\/adam-rutherford\/9781474622387&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/eugenics-a-toxic-history\/media.mp3&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 12:00 am Geneticist Adam Rutherford speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about the dark, and often surprising, history of the eugenics movement, from \u2018best baby\u2019 fairs and population control to the Nazi \u2018euthanasia\u2019 programme. 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