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Marius Turda

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,7 cm ( B/H/T )
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320 Seiten
April 2016
Bloomsbury 3PL

Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme 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 programme 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.

Marius Turda is Professor in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of In Seach of the Perfect Romanian: National Specificity, Racial Degeneration, and Social Selection in Modern Romania (2026); Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014); Modernism and Eugenics (2010), and the editor of The History of Eugenics in East-Central Europe, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries (2015) and Religion, Evolution and Heredity (2018).

Introduction 1. Precursors 2. Early Latin Eugenics 3. Latin Eugenics in Interwar Europe 4. Latin Eugenics, Catholicism and Sterilization 5. Eugenics in Interwar Latin America 6. The Latin Eugenics Federation 7. Latin Eugenics and Scientific Racism Conclusion Epilogue: Latin Eugenics after 1945 Bibliography Index