Quality and Quantity - The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France

Klappentext An account of eugenicists' efforts to improve the inherited biological quality of the French population. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2001! explains how eugenicists tried to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. It is the first attempt to set forth the major components of French eugenics both for comparison with other countries and to show the interaction of the various movements that comprised it. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Degeneration and regeneration; 3. From puericulture to eugenics; 4. The French eugenics society to 1920; 5. Postwar eugenics and social hygiene; 6. The campaign for a premarital exam; 7. French eugenics in the thirties; 8. Eugenics, race and blood; 9. Race and immigration; 10. Vichy and after; 11. Conclusion; Notes.

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• Authors: William H. Schneider, William H. (Purdue University Schneider
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521524612
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52461-2
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories