caa a22 4500 386398356 CHVBK 20180307112147.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007087400026194 doi S0007087400026194 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007087400026194 Roll-Hansen Nils Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education, Norwegian Research Council for Science and Humanities, Munthes Gate 29, 0260 Oslo 2, Norway. Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia [Elektronische Daten] [Nils Roll-Hansen] Two questions will receive special attention in this account, namely the political location of eugenics and the role of genetic science in its development. I will show that moderate eugenic policies had broad political support. For instance, the Scandinavian sterilization laws which were introduced in the 1930s were supported by the Social Democratic Parties, who were partly in position of government. I will argue that the effect of genetic research was to make eugenics more moderate, mainly because the fears and hopes were shown to be exaggerated. Degeneration was much slower than feared at first, if it took place at all, and the expectation of rapid and large effects of eugenic policies on the gene pool likewise proved to be quite unrealistic. Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1989 The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 335-346 0007-0874 22:3<335 1989 22 BJH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400026194 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400026194 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Roll-Hansen Nils Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education, Norwegian Research Council for Science and Humanities, Munthes Gate 29, 0260 Oslo 2, Norway NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 335-346 0007-0874 22:3<335 1989 22 BJH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge