Human Fertility and Differential Birth Rates in American Eugenics and Genetics: A Brief History

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 161-166

  Cooke, Kathy J ^a  

^a QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eugenics; Genetics (history); Hereditary diseases; History of medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; NEWBORN; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

BIRTH RATE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUGENICS; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREJUDICE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032060372     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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