The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801497957 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This book serves as an important corrective to the myopic vision underlying much of the older historiography of the movement. An excellent addition to the literature on eugenics and the history of science in Latin America."Medical History"Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate. Stepan has now made a significant contribution to an international picture of the development of race and population policies. She skillfully shows the ideological dualities resulting from eugenic practices. This is an im
G. Haas said Great Start for Learning about Eugenics in Latin America. I used this book for a senior thesis paper. It was a good starting point for an overview of eugenics in Latin America. The downside to this book is that most of the information is a little old and a lot more has been written. What I really like about this book is that it lead me to other sources.. Very interesing and well written I still haven't finished reading, but I can tell already that the book is a very professional work of research.. Health hazard. Panda There is mold on the back cover of the book.
Drawing upon a rich body of evidence concerning the technical publications and professional meetings of Latin American eugenicists, she examines how they adapted eugenic principles to local contexts between the world wars. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology of Nazi Germany. Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. Examining for the first time how eugenics was taken up by scientists and social reformers in Latin America, Nancy Leys Stepan compares the eugenics movements in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina with the more familiar cases of Britain, the United States, and Germany.In this highly original account, Stepan sheds new light on the role of science in reformulating issues of race, gender, reproduction, and public health in an era when the focus on national identity was particularly intense. Stepan shows that Latin American eug
She is the author of Eradication, "The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America and Picturing Tropical Nature, all from Cornell.. Nancy Leys Stepan is Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University