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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Main Author: Cassata, Francesco
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Hungary Amsterdam University Press 2011
Central European University Press
Edition:1
Series:CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Subjects:
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Anthropology
CEU Press
Eugenics
Eugenics > Italy > History
Fascism
General history of Europe Italian Peninsula & adjacent islands
Health Sciences
HISTORY
HISTORY / Europe / Italy
History of science
Italy
MEDICAL
MEDICAL / History
Medical policy
Niet accessible
Racial studies
Reproductive Medicine & Technology
SCIENCE
SCIENCE / History
Social and Political Sciences
Sociology and Social History
Eugenics, Fascism, History of science, Italy, Medical history, Medical policy, Racial studies
Europe
Anthropology
Sociology and Social History
MEDICAL
Active
CEU Press
Social and Political Sciences
Reproductive medicine
Italy
SCIENCE
Niet accessible
HISTORY
medical history
racial studies
medical policy
fascism
eugenics
italy
history of science
Medical policy
Racial studies
Fascism
Eugenics
History of science
Medical history
ISBN:9639776831, 9789639776838, 9789639776890, 9639776890
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-417) and index
ISBN:9639776831
9789639776838
9789639776890
9639776890
DOI:10.1515/9789639776890