The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea

The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea

Beginning at the beginning and reading through it, I felt that the first chapters, on nineteenth-century Europe, seemed rather clumsy: a history of ideas with very little context. The archival research and the personal knowledge broke through, and I was captivated by the power of a teacher familiar...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bulletin of the history of medicine 2003, Vol.77 (4), p.971-972
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