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Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–1940.

This essay traces the main ways in which photography was taken up and used by supporters of the eugenics movement, from the time that Darwin's cousin, the British polymath Francis Galton, first used it to demonstrate the role played by heredity in human intelligence, to the early 1940s, when the eug...

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Published in:Studies in History & Philosophy of Science Part A Vol. 92; pp. 71 - 86
Main Author: Maxwell, Anne
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier B.V. Apr2022
Subjects:
Eugenics
Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911
Photography
Social conflict
Class differences
United Kingdom
Australia
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