Building the new man : eugenics, racial science and genetics in twentieth-century Italy

Building the new man eugenics, racial science and genetics in twentieth-century Italy

Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. Discusses several fundamental theme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cassata, Francesco (-)
Otros Autores: O'Loughlin, Erin
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press c2011.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 3.
Materias:
Eugenics > Italy > History.
Genetics > Italy > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438797406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER I. Between Lombroso and Pareto : the Italian Way to Eugenics
  • CHAPTER II. Eugenics and Dysgenics of War
  • CHAPTER III. Regenerating Italy (1919–1924)
  • CHAPTER IV. Quality through Quantity: Eugenics in Fascist Ital y
  • CHAPTER V. Eugenics and Racism (1938–1943)
  • CHAPTER VI. Toward a New Eugenics
  • CHAPTER VII. Against UNESCO: Italian Eugenics and America n Scientific Racism
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names

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