Eugenics scandal reveals silence of Swedish scientists

Declan Butler

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6646, 9-9

Abstract: [PARIS]Revelations that successive Swedish governments sterilized more than 60,000 people on eugenic, social and economic grounds until as recently as 1976, have exposed the failure of the Swedish scientific and medical communities to speak out against the practice.

Date: 1997
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