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

• मुख्य लेखक: Krementsov, Nikolai (Author) (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: कोई लिंग्विस्ट सामग्री नहीं
• प्रकाशित: Open Book Publishers 2018
• विषय: Francis Galton; science; Vasilii Florinskii; medicine; USSR; history; biography; eugenics; Russia
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 unhera...