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Imperfect Conceptions: Medicine Knowledge, Birth Defects and Eugenics in China Frank Dikotter
Imperfect Conceptions: Medicine Knowledge, Birth Defects and Eugenics in China
Frank Dikotter
This work analyzes the relationship between medicine and ideas about reproduction in China. Drawing on a variety of sources, the author shows how the notion of reproduction as a potentially dangerous phenomenon - one regulated to safeguard the nation's eugenic future - permeated Chinese society.
236 pages, 10 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 16, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9781850653318 |
| Publishers | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 138 × 225 × 17 mm · 469 g |
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