June 13, 2008
Eugenics in the Past and Genetics Today
To the Editor:
Ruth Schwartz Cowan's views of modern medical genetics have to be evaluated independently of her radical, revisionist history of eugenics ("Medical Genetics Is Not Eugenics," The Chronicle Review, May 16). The problem is not simply that human genetics began as an applied science, and that the ideas of German geneticists of the 1930s were explicitly derived from those of their American counterparts of the 1920s. What the eugenics movement tells us is that in the field of
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