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Zusatztext The tasks undertaken in these two books are remarkably ambitious and are executed with much sophistication and erudition ... The growing literature on eugenics will be significantly enriched by these two publications. Informationen zum Autor Marius Turda is Professor in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014); Modernism and Eugenics (2010); The Idea of National Superiority in Central Europe, 1880-1918 (2005), co-author (with Maria Sophia Quine) of Historicizing Race (2018), and the editor of The History of Eugenics in East-Central Europe, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries (2015) and Religion, Evolution and Heredity (2018). Aaron Gilette is Associate Professor in History at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA Vorwort A comparative approach to the history of eugenics, exploring the emergence and development of 'Latin' eugenics. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Precursors2. Early Latin Eugenics3. Latin Eugenics in Interwar Europe4. Latin Eugenics, Catholicism and Sterilization5. Eugenics in Interwar Latin America6. The Latin Eugenics Federation7. Latin Eugenics and Scientific RacismConclusion Epilogue: Latin Eugenics after 1945BibliographyIndex...
