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...
| Publicado en: | Studies in History & Philosophy of Science Part A Vol. 92; pp. 71 - 86 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Apr2022
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