Hormones, heredity, and race : spectacular failure in interwar Vienna /

In the early twentieth century, arguments between "nature" and "nurture" pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists who sought to show how the environment co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Logan, Cheryl A.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press ©2013.
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjbvh
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Constructing heredity
  • pt. 2. Reform eugenics.