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Christos Konstantopoulos

Canada

Christos is a historian and social scientist with a keen interest in the history of health and the influence of experts on political decision-making. He holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge and an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where his MPhil thesis focused on how advocates of eugenics interacted with policy-makers in Edwardian Britain. Christos is currently a History PhD student at McGill University.

Education:University of Oxford, 2021MPhil Politics: Comparative GovernmentUniversity of Cambridge, 2019BA HistoryExpertise:
History
History of Health
History of Medicine
Member since: Jan 29, 2023Location: CanadaPublished posts: 2

Articles by Christos Konstantopoulos

Eugenics after the Nazis? The Evolution of a Problematic Discipline
Eugenics after the Nazis? The Evolution of a Problematic Discipline

Eugenics declined after Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945 but did not disappear. Instead, it changed priorities, focusing on “overpopulation,” and modern advances in gene editing might have brought it back.