Race Culture: Recent Perspectives on the History of Eugenics

1998/04/01 by Frank Dikötter, Frank Dikotter · 1 voice · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Medical History and Research

paper · doi:10.2307/2649776

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Discussions

• I've been really helped by this article on eugenics from a historian: "Eugenics was not so much a clear set of scientific principles as a 'modern' way of talking about social problems in biologizing [bsky, 6 points, 2 comments]