A review by caffeinated_librarycat
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford

5.0

Rutherford does a great job at highlighting the history and future of eugenics. I think it's really valuable to see how pre-war eugenics was largely spearheaded by affluent British and American personalities. Many of them went on to create the organizations and policies that inspired Nazi Germany. Ironically, those judging the wartime atrocities had previously condoned the policies themselves. I thoroughly enjoyed the second part of the book that goes on to differentiate gene editing from gene modification and introduces emerging technology that will create new ethical dilemmas surrounding eugenics.