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The debate on eugenics occasioned by the lectures Madzsar, Diene s and Fülöp offered to the Society of Social Sciences between February and May 1911 highlighted diverse theories of social and biological improvement. A crucial realization in itself, it also substantiated the claim that Hungarian eugenics could not be viewed in isolation, but in terms of a set of ideas and practices which travelled from one individual to another, and from one country to another. This debate marked a major landmark in the history of eugenics in Hungary, but is it possible to shift the scholarly focus from a single cultural moment to a network of connections between this society and other societies at that time, and no less between eugenicists in Hungary and abroad?
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Turda, M. (2014). At a Crossroads. In: Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137293534_5
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