{"id":9939,"date":"2010-11-08T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:55:10","slug":"selling-eugenics-the-case-of-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9939","title":{"rendered":"Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsnr.2010.0009\" target=\"_blank\">Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org\" target=\"_blank\">Notes &amp; Records of the Royal Society<br \/>\n<\/a>Volume 64, Number 4<br \/>\npages 379-400<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsnr.2010.0009\" target=\"_blank\">10.1098\/rsnr.2010.0009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria Bj\u00f6rkman<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change<br \/>\n<em>Link\u00f6ping University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:sven.widmalm@liu.se\" target=\"_blank\">Sven Widmalm<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change<br \/>\n<em>Link\u00f6ping University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper traces the early (1910s to 1920s) development of Swedish eugenics through a study of the social network that promoted it. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\">eugenics<\/a> network consisted mainly of academics from a variety of disciplines, but with medicine and biology dominating; connections with German scientists who would later shape <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazism\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biopolitics\" target=\"_blank\">biopolitics<\/a> were strong. The paper shows how the network used political lobbying (for example, using contacts with academically accomplished MPs) and various media strategies to gain scientific and political support for their cause, where a major goal was the creation of a eugenics institute (which opened in 1922). It also outlines the eugenic vision of the institute&#8217;s first director, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herman_Bernhard_Lundborg\" target=\"_blank\">Herman Lundborg<\/a>. In effect the network, and in particular Lundborg, promoted the view that politics should be guided by eugenics and by a genetically superior elite. The selling of eugenics in Sweden is an example of the co-production of science and social order.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/64\/4\/379.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden Notes &amp; Records of the Royal Society Volume 64, Number 4 pages 379-400 DOI: 10.1098\/rsnr.2010.0009 Maria Bj\u00f6rkman Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Link\u00f6ping University Sven Widmalm Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Link\u00f6ping University This paper traces the early (1910s to 1920s) development of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,2039,8,26,394],"tags":[5186,4342,4345,4343,4344],"class_list":["post-9939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-herman-lundborg","tag-maria-bjorkman","tag-notes-records-of-the-royal-society","tag-sven-widmalm","tag-sweeden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43576,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions\/43576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}