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The beautiful skull and Blumenbach's errors: the birth of the scientific concept of race
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The beautiful skull and Blumenbach's errors: the birth of the scientific concept of race
Raj Bhopal. BMJ..
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Raj Bhopal re-examines the role of perhaps the most important contributor to the scientific concept of race, Blumenbach, whose insights and errors provide important lessons for us today
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Competing interests: None declared.
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Fig 1 Portrait of Blumenbach
Fig 1 Plate III of the third edition of Blumenbach’s MD thesis
Fig 2 Plate IV of the third edition of Blumenbach’s MD thesis
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- Bhopal RS. Ethnicity, race, and health in multicultural societies; foundations for better epidemiology, public health, and health care. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007:357.
- Rosenberg NA, Pritchard JK, Weber JL, Cann HM, Kidd KK, Zhivotovsky LA, et al. Genetic structure of human populations. Science 2002;298:2381-5. - PubMed
- Blumenbach JF. The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. London: Anthropological Society, 1865
- Linnaeus C. A general system of nature through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals. Systema naturae London: Lackington Allen, 1806
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