In this podcast Professor Philippa Levine, formerly Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, is in conversation with Andy Platman and Ken Barrett. We discuss the British origins of eugenic ideas and the worldwide movement that followed. Nazi eugenics, from sterilisation to euthanasia are explored, but also how these ideas took off and were applied, in different forms, worldwide, most enthusiastically in the USA but also in Scandinavia, Australia, Latin America and beyond. But that doesn't entirely capture the depth and range of subjects covered in this extraordinary conversation.

Participants:

Professor Philippa Levine,

Dr Andy Platman, writer and former GP.

Ken Barrett, artist, writer and former neuropsychiatrist.

Eugenics: A very short introduction by Philippa Levine https://academic.oup.com/book/825?login=false

Musical extracts are from the opera Brainland composed by Stephen Brown https://www.brainlandtheopera.co.uk/

Portrait of Philippa Levine by Ken Barrett.

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