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Erik L. Peterson, PhD, is Associate Provost and Associate Professor of the History of Science & Medicine at The University of Alabama. He publishes and teaches about the historical relationship between race and science in the United States and abroad.
""Peterson helps us see the motives and ideas behind eugenics as deeply embedded in the history of racism, imperialism, and colonialism. This book could not be more timely."" -- James E. Strick, author of Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates Over Spontaneous Generation ""Indispensable. This formidable history of eugenics helps us understand its continued importance in the modern discussion—from the American roots of Nazi atrocity to the continued use of eugenic practices today. It should be required reading."" -- John Slattery, PhD, Executive Director, Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law, Duquesne University ""Reckoning with the eugenic past in all its complexity is a task for our times. In The Shortest History of Eugenics, Erik L. Peterson provides a concise survey that nevertheless gives that complexity its due, explaining how scientific ideas, medical techniques, economic incentives, and political ideologies combined to such ruinous effect, with legacies that persist right up to the present."" -- Gregory Radick, author of Disputed Inheritance and professor of history and philosophy of science, University of Leeds
