Crafting humans : from Genesis to eugenics and beyond / Marius Turda (ed.).

Goettingen : V&R Unipress ; Taipei : National Taiwan University Press, 2013.

197 pages ; 25 cm.

Preface and acknowledgements -- Aftermaths and "foremaths": history and humans / Frank Ankersmit -- Crafting a golem: the creation of an artificial anthropoid / Moshe Idel -- The end of history as the liminality of the human condition: from Kojève to Agamben / Antonis Liakos -- Bio-nomic man (and woman): fantasies of anthropological revolution as a reaction to modernity's nomic crisis / Roger Griffin -- Eugenics: past, present, and future / Merryn Ekberg -- Crafting a healthy nation: European eugenics in historical context / Marius Turda -- Making Italians: Aryanism and anthropology in Italy during the Risorgimento / Maria Sophia Quine -- Julian Huxley's Transhumanism / Alison Bashford -- List of contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of names.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wellcome Trust grant output. Grantholder: Marius Turda. Grant Type: History of Medicine Symposia. Grant number: 096561.