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In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
By Daniel J. KevlesDaniel Kevles' classic intellectual history of how eugenic thinking moved from Galton into American and British policy. The scholarly counterpart to Edwin Black's narrative history.
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📄 448 pages⏱ ~4 hr read📅 1998
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Daniel Kevles' classic intellectual history of how eugenic thinking moved from Galton into American and British policy. The scholarly counterpart to Edwin Black's narrative history.
In English
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