God's Eugenicist

"At this time of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, worldwide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers. important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s."--Jacket.