Building the New Man Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy

Discusses several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pr...

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Hlavný autor: Cassata, Francesco
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Hungary Amsterdam University Press 2011
Central European University Press
Vydanie:1
Edícia:CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
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ISBN:9639776831, 9789639776838, 9789639776890, 9639776890
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Shrnutí:Discusses several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pre-fascist period and the post-WW2 transition from fascist and racial eugenics to medical and human genetics. As far as fascist eugenics is concerned, the book provides a refreshing analysis, considering Italian eugenics as the most important case-study in order to define Latin eugenics as an alternative model to its Anglo-American, German and Scandinavian counterparts. Analyses in detail the nature-nurture debate during the State racist campaign in fascist Italy (1938–1943) as a boundary tool in the contraposition between the different institutional, political and ideological currents of fascist racism.
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-417) and index
ISBN:9639776831
9789639776838
9789639776890
9639776890
DOI:10.1515/9789639776890