Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

by Turda, Marius; Gillette, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9781472531407
• ISBN10: 147253140X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political program designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as 'Latin', sharing genealogical, linguistic, religious, and cultural origins.

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective offers a comparative, nuanced approach to eugenics as a scientific program as well as a cultural and political phenomenon. It examines the commonalities of eugenics in 'Latin' Europe and Latin America. As a program to achieve the social and political goals of modern welfare systems, Latin eugenics strongly influenced the complex relationship of the state to the individual. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources in many languages, this book offers the first history of Latin eugenics in Europe and the Americas.

Author Biography

Marius Turda is Reader in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: In Search of a "Latin" Identity

1: Degeneration and Eugenics

2: Early Latin Eugenics, 1870 to World War I

3: Eugenics and Fascism

4: "Latin" Eugenics and Sterilization

5: Eugenics and National Development in Latin America, 1912 to 1939

6: "Latin" Eugenics in Non-Latin Countries of Central and Southeastern Europe

7: "Latin" Eugenics and the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, 1919 to 1931

Conclusion: The Apogee and Decline of "Latin" Eugenics

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