Catholicism, Race and Empire: Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950 (CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine, 5) - Hardcover

Cleminson, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9633860288 ISBN 13: 9789633860281

Verlag: Central European University Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

This monograph discusses Portuguese eugenics within a strong international historiographical comparative framework and situates it within different regional, scientific and ideological types of eugenics in the same period. The author argues about three factors that curtailed the development of eugenics in Portugal: the low level of institutionalization, Catholic opposition and the conservative nature of the Salazar regime. The eugenic science and movement was confined to three principal expressions: individualized studies on mental health, often from a 'biotypological' perspective; a particular stance on racial miscegenation within the context of the existence of large colonies under Portuguese rule; and a diffuse model of social hygiene, maternity care and puericulture. This book not only brings to light an unstudied eugenics movement; it also invites the reader to re-think the relations between northern and southern forms of eugenics, the role of religion, the dynamic nature of eugenics in finding a home for its theories and the nature of colonialism.

Biografía del autor:

Richard Cleminson is a senior lecturer in Spanish at the University of Leeds and the author of "Anarchism, Science and Sex: Eugenics in Eastern Spain, 1900-1937," Francisco Vazquez Garcia is professor of philosophy at the University of Cadiz and the author of "Historia de la Prostitucion en Andalucia,"

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• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9633860288
• ISBN 13: 9789633860281
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304