The hidden science of eugenics
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 374 (6520) , 302-304
- https://doi.org/10.1038/374302a0
Abstract
The early eugenicists were not stupid, but they did not share our social values. The rise and fall of the eugenics movement is a history that modern medical geneticists would do well to heed.Keywords
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