Book ID: CBB000033266

The wellborn science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia (1990)

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Adams, Mark B. (Editor)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 1990
Physical Details: xi + 242 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Adams, Mark B.: Eugenics in the history of science. Weiss, Sheila Faith: The race hygiene movement in Germany, 1904-1945. Schneider, William H.: The eugenics movement in France, 1890-1940. Stepan, Nancy Leys: Eugenics in Brazil, 1917-1940. Adams, Mark B.: Eugenics in Russia, 1900-1940. Adams, Mark B.: Towards a comparative history of eugenics.


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Review Glass, B. (1993) Review of "The wellborn science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia". Quarterly Review of Biology (pp. 61-67). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Paul, Diane B.
Turda, Marius
Becker, Peter Emil
Bodó, Béla
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Farber, Paul Lawrence
Journals
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
History of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
Duke University
Bloomsbury Publishing
Johns Hopkins University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Thieme
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Eugenics
Science and race
Evolution
Darwinism
Genetics
Science and politics
People
Pearson, Karl
Günther, Hans F. K.
Heron, David
Heuyer, Georges
Lundberg, Erik
Penrose, Lionel
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Modern
Places
United States
British Isles
Germany
Sweden
Brazil
Great Britain
Institutions
University of London
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