With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia Contributor(s): Nikolai, Krementsov (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783745126 ISBN-13: 9781783745128 Publisher: Open Book Publishers OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | History - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Modern - 19th Century |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.52 lbs) 696 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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, Florinskii's book would go on to have a remarkable afterlife in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia. |