Gunnar Broberg
Gunnar Broberg was professor in History of Science and Ideas at Lund University, Sweden, appointed in 1990. Broberg has written about the compulsory sterilization activities in Sweden and extensively about the scientist Carl Linnaeus. In 2005 he was elected Chair of the Royal Humanistic Scientific Society in Lund. He was the editor of the book Gyllene äpplen, which won the August Prize in 1992.
Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, Michigan State University Press: 1996.The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus, Princeton University Press: 2023.
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