The article investigates the participation of the Italian scholars in the First International Eugenics Congress held in London, under the presidency of Leonard Darwin (24-30 July 1912). The analysis of the papers presented by the Italian eugenicists reveals the main features of the national eugenics movement: an interdisciplinary approach, involving anthropology, psychiatry, sociology, demography, economics, and politics; the prominent role recognized to social and environmental conditions; the emphasis on educational and hygiene reforms. At the same time, however, the article shows how some relevant Italian eugenicists were in principle in favor of the adoption of repressive measures, such as the sterilization of the unfit. They rejected i...
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Abstract Latin and Nordic Eugenics in the project of racial improvement set up by Giuseppe Sergi, f...
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Introduzione al numero monografico di Contemporanea intitolato "Present days-eugenics"
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The First International Eugenics Congress was held in London between 24 and 31 July 1912, under the ...
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Secondo l’opinione dell’Autore, in una prospettiva storica, una approfondita analisi dell’evoluzione...
This article is part of an international forum on raceand racism published by the Journal of Anthrop...
Introducing a special issue of the journal, the article summarizes the half-century long debate on e...
The articles collected in this special section of «Popolazione e Storia» take stock of the results o...
Initially focused above all on the cases of Great Britain, the United States and Germany, the histor...
International audienceThe Aim : of this article is to shed light on the rise to international promin...
Abstract Latin and Nordic Eugenics in the project of racial improvement set up by Giuseppe Sergi, f...
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the ways in which biomedical practices, scientific knowle...
This article discusses the development of Latin eugenics in Europe between 1910s and 1930s, with a ...
Introduzione al numero monografico di Contemporanea intitolato "Present days-eugenics"
Though the connection between eugenics and the Left has been largely investigated, this topic has be...
The First International Eugenics Congress was held in London between 24 and 31 July 1912, under the ...
This article discusses the thought of one of the pioneers of eugenics in Spain, Dr. Enrique Diego M...
Inequality at birth. Remarks on eugenics and heredity in Italy. At the end of the nineteenth centu...
This article explores how hormone treatments were used to optimise and normalise individuals under I...
Secondo l’opinione dell’Autore, in una prospettiva storica, una approfondita analisi dell’evoluzione...
This article is part of an international forum on raceand racism published by the Journal of Anthrop...
Introducing a special issue of the journal, the article summarizes the half-century long debate on e...