The Hour of Eugenics

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ISBN: 9780801425691 | 0801425697
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/1991

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This book addresses the scientific and social movement known as eugenics, a word invented in 1883 (from the Greek eugenes, meaning 'wellborn') by the British scientist Francis Galton to encompass the social uses to which knowledge of heredity could be put in order to achieve the goal of 'better breeding'.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction Science and Social Knowledge	p. 1
The New Genetics and the Beginnings of Eugenics	p. 21
Eugenics in Latin America: Its Origins and Institutional Ecology	p. 35
Racial Poisons and the Politics of Heredity in Latin America in the 1920s	p. 63
Matrimonial Eugenics: Gender and the Construction of Negative Eugenics	p. 102
National Identities and Racial Transformations	p. 135
Conclusion	p. 169
U.S., Pan American, and Latin Visions of Eugenics	p. 171
Conclusion: Science and the Politics of Interpretation	p. 196
Index	p. 203
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