History of social hygiene, eugenics, exchange of medical knowledge across national and ideological borders in the 19th and 20th centuries
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Este libro tiene como objetivo general analizar las relaciones entre higiene, geopolítica y poder político en las estrategias de erradicación y segregación de grupos poblacionales implementadas en Santiago de Chile durante la dictadura... more
Revealing continuity and change co-exist in history, Swedish/Sami missionary Lars Levi Laestadius played a key role in the colonization of Nordic Sami women by medicalizing female shamanistic experiences and mythology. The modern social... more
Richard Wetzell’s chapter argues that we must distinguish the question of the complicity of German racial scientists – including eugenicists, anthropologists, human geneticists, and Rassenforscher – in Nazi eugenic and racial policy from... more
This study won a national article prize from the History of Science Society. Informed by group-grid theory, it offers a political analysis of the rise and fall of Henry H. Goddard's eugenic program at Ohio's Bureau of Juvenile Research... more
Din cuprins: Idealul eugenic • Internationalizarea eugenismului • Razboiul: singurul igienist al lumii • Cruciada eugenismului: cantitate sau calitate? • Biologia politica • Tehnologiile eugenice ale perfectionarii nationale • Stigmatul... more
What is the genealogy of the idea of cyborgization? To what extent is the contemporary man cyborgized? Is the birth of cyborgization accompanied with changes in the perception of education? The book is an attempt at replying these... more
In reaction to industrial and urban development and its effects on health during the Belle Epoque, doctors endeavored to promote a program of hygienic reform. Militant vegetarians and naturopathy enthusiasts, sharing their apprehensions,... more
The entangled histories of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans in the struggle to survive the paternalistic, race-based legislation of a heavy-handed United States government.
Esta investigación propone situar la propuesta de esterilización eugénica presente en “La Realidad Médico-Social Chilena” (1939) de Salvador Allende en el contexto histórico de la discusión de esta medida en la década de 1930 en Chile.... more
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Everything in Holocaust history began to crumble with the Berlin Wall. The world was given access to what amounted to more than half the documentary evidence and historical sites. The WWII generation in Germany began to die away, and... more
Inwiefern wurden im Nationalsozialismus neben behinderten Menschen auch Tuberkulosekranke Opfer von Krankenmord? Mit dieser grundlegenden Frage beschäftigt sich ein neues Forschungsprojekt, das im Mai 2015 mit großzügiger finanzieller... more
In this article based on previously unpublished archival sources and rarely accessed medical publications of the 1920s the author analyzes the anti-syphilis campaign in a remote Soviet autonomous republic populated by a Mongolian-speaking... more
Based on archival sources and coeval treatises, a careful analysis of kitchens, bathrooms, credenze and dispense in renaissance Italian princely and noble houses.
Entre 1877 et 1897 la Congrégation du Saint-Office eut à examiner cinq dubia concernant le statut moral de la fécondation artificielle appliquée aux êtres humains. Les inquisiteurs romains se formèrent un jugement précis dès le premier... more
One of the most rewarding aspects of the rewrite and reboot of “The Eugenics Anthology” was working with now-retired Professor Garland E. Allen. Anyone that has spent any amount of time researching eugenics and scientific racism knows... more
The Greek biopolitics of reproduction during the postwar period was determined by the demographic figures. Instead of a rise in births, Greece experienced a constant downward trajectory of the birth rate throughout the second half of the... more
Книгата проследява употреби на биомедицински, психологиче-ски и евгенични дискурси в България за регулиране на достъпа до публичността от края на XIX в. до Втората световна война. Изследват се фигури на анормалното и неговите носители,... more
The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 redefines the European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in East-Central Europe. Using 100... more
Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as ‘Latin’. With the emergence of eugenics in the late 19th century, this... more
Introduction to "Present-days eugenics", monographic issue of "Contemporanea. Rivista dell'800 e del 900"
The article presents the basic assumptions of philosophies constitutive points of reference for the idea of cyborgization (new eugenics and transhumanism). It also highlights how education might be perceived in relation to these ideas.... more
The alarmist term “race suicide” was coined by the popular and distinguished U.S. sociologist Edward A. Ross at the turn of the 20th century. The concept was in-principle a general one. When the birth rate within a so-called race dropped... more
This text results from research undertaken for a master's degree that focused on the proposed introduction of prenuptial medical exams in the early 1900s in Brazil. This was strongly defended by Brazilian eugenicists as a much-needed... more
"Carlo Morelli: un riformatore nell`Italia dell`Ottocento", atti del convegno, 6-7 dicembre 2016, Firenze, a cura di Franco Carnevale Esther Diana
in "Dizionario biografico degli italiani", Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana,, Roma, 2015, vol. 82, pp. 207-211
L'industrialisation et de l'urbanisation des sociétés occidentales, un rôle que l'on ne peut négliger. Parmi les expériences et les réalisations qu'elle a pu susciter, les programmes naturistes de réforme des modes de vie, qui... more