John Phipps

An all too brisk and too narrow history of eugenics: Radio 4’s Bad Blood reviewed

Plus: a much better analysis of whether humans are as legible and as measurable as we believe them to be can be found by listening to the audiobook of The Woman in White

Francis Galton (c.1890), a Victorian eccentric who coined the term 'eugenics'. Photo: Adoc-photos / Corbis / Getty Images

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