Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation.

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MARIUS TURDA is Deputy Director, Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University, UK, founder of the international Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics (Oxford Brookes), and the series editor of Studies in the History of Medicine with CEU Press in Budapest. He has published widely on the comparative history of eugenics and race.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Context and Methodology The Pathos of Science, 1870-1914 War: The World's Only Hygiene, 1914-1918 Eugenic Technologies of National Improvement, 1918-1933 Eugenics and Biopolitics, 1933-1940 Conclusion: Towards an Epistemology of Eugenic Knowledge Selected Bibliography Index