LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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...

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