Book review by William E. Seidelman of Robert N. Proctor's, 'Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis.' This book is an important and sobering account of the consequences of biological determinism when scientists, physicians, and politicians felt they had the answer to the problem of inherited disorders and racial contamination. It is a tale about the perversion of science and power in the country which gave birth to modern medical science, Germany.

ISSN 0823-2105

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