Titre : | Eugenics and public health in American history. (1997) |
Auteurs : | M.S. PERNICK |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 87, n° 11, 1997/11) |
Pagination : | 1767-1772 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Santé publique [généralité] ; Eugénisme ; Histoire médecine ; Histoire santé ; Etats Unis |
Résumé : | This paper sketches some of the key similarities and differences between eugenics and public health in the United States, and it examines how their relationship was shaped by the interaction of science and culture. The results demonstrate that eugenics was not an isolated movement whose significance is confined to the histories of genetics and pseudoscience, but was instead an important and cautionary part of past public health and a general medical history as well. (R.A.). |