Lifelines: Biology, Freedom, Determination

  • Steven Rose
Allen Lane: 1997335Pp. £20.To be published in the United States by Oxford University Press in January at $30

Genetics has been one of the most successful sciences of the twentieth century. Yet its history is not a simple success story. In the Soviet Union, genetics was almost destroyed. In Germany, it served as an argument for mass murder. In the United States, it was used to legitimize mass sterilization, laws against racial mixing and a restrictive immigration policy.

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