"Fatal Misconception" is the disturbing story of our quest to remake ourselves by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once, and then again, well-meaning people concluded that only population control could preserve the "quality of life." This movement eventually spanned the globe and carried out a series of astonishing experiments, from banning Asian immigration to compensating the poor who accepted sterilization.Supported by affluent countries, foundations, and non-governmental organizations, the population control movement experimented with ways to limit population growth. But it had to contend with the Catholic Church's ban on contraception and nationalist leaders who warned of "race suicide." The ensuing struggle caused untold suffering for those caught in the middle-particularly women and children. It culminated in the horrors of sterilization camps in India and the one-child policy in China.Matthew Connelly offers the first global history of a movement that changed how people regard their children and ultimately the face of humankind. It was the most ambitious social engineering project of the twentieth century, one that continues to alarm the global community. Though promoted as a way to lift people out of poverty - perhaps even to save the earth-family planning became a means to plan other people's families.With its transnational scope and exhaustive research into such archives as Planned Parenthood and the newly opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly's withering critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people.
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a history of population control. It reaches a surprising conclusion that population control does not have that much role as we usually assign to it in controlling fertility.
评分可能是領域內目前最好的曆史研究。全球視野太厲害，各國檔案又翔實，描述人口過剩是如何在二十世紀的國際政治格局中逐步變成一個錯誤但影響深遠的共識的、人口控製又如何被限製到某個特定形態的。結論不過是幾句話的事情，但能做到這種程度纔是曆史研究的價值所在吧。
评分a history of population control. It reaches a surprising conclusion that population control does not have that much role as we usually assign to it in controlling fertility.
评分a history of population control. It reaches a surprising conclusion that population control does not have that much role as we usually assign to it in controlling fertility.
评分Industrial research of population policies, insightful and meaningful discussion, but generally misleading and one-sided account
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