Public HealthJune 3, 2019
The Electronic Paternity Test and Other Follies
A spate of “scientific” assays invented in the 1920s and 1930s were bogus—but they tell us a lot about the role of genetics in society, both then and now
Stories by Nara B. Milanich
Nara B. Milanich is a professor at Barnard College and the author of Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father, out June 10 from Harvard University Press.