Social Darwinism and Eugenics | Victorian Sensations
Paul McGann investigates how Victorian scientists were developing theories about ways to prevent biological and social decay in humans.
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- Clip length: 5'45''
- Broadcast year: 2019
Curriculum Connection
- History | Medicine in Britain, c1000-present | c1700-c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain | Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
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- Provider: BBC
- Channel: BBC Four
- Programme: Victorian Sensations
- Series: 1
- Episode: Decadence and Degeneration
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