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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
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informative
fast-paced
Not too dense, but always introducing new ideas to consider and challenge. Love the acknowledgment of the author's own biases.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, and Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual violence, Abortion, and Pregnancy
Book contains excerpts from texts about eugenics that are extremely racist, in order to highlight the racism cemented in the concept of eugenics.