"The essay shows that while the majority of research projects at SIRB concerned medical genetics in the years 1936−1960, racial science never disappeared. SIRB scientists engaged in theoretical debates on the concept of race and conducted racial surveys of the Swedish population, using anthropometry and later serology as research methods."

Martin Ericsson (2021) What happened to ‘race’ in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46:1, 125-148, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020.1778520 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #History #Scandinavia #Sweden #Europe #Science #STEM #ScienceMastodon #Biology #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #Academia #Academic @science @biology