"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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史料翔实，对欧美population establishment的批判也可以理解，但是作者的强烈预设立场在当前pandemic大背景下读起来未免有些不合时宜 | 20191020
评分史料翔实，对欧美population establishment的批判也可以理解，但是作者的强烈预设立场在当前pandemic大背景下读起来未免有些不合时宜 | 20191020
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.
评分可能是领域内目前最好的历史研究。全球视野太厉害，各国档案又翔实，描述人口过剩是如何在二十世纪的国际政治格局中逐步变成一个错误但影响深远的共识的、人口控制又如何被限制到某个特定形态的。结论不过是几句话的事情，但能做到这种程度才是历史研究的价值所在吧。
评分i hate this book with passion! whoever feels the same, douban-friend me please. i sincerely believe common hatred weighs much more than shared interest.
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