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With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia (PDF)

In 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become ‘eugenics.’ The same year, Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii addressed similar issues in a sizeable treatise, entitled Human Perfection and Degeneration. Initially unheralded, Flor...

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Main Author: Nikolai Krementsov
Format: Default Book
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25966831.v1
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