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Author Cassata, Francesco

Title Building the Common Man : Eugenics, Racial Sciences and Genetics in Twentieth Century Italy
Published Budapest : Central European University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (440 pages)
Contents ""Front cover""; ""Series title page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER I Between Lombroso and Pareto: the Italian Way to Eugenics""; ""1. Lombroso�s Way: the Problem of Degeneration""; ""2. Pareto�s Way: the Problem of the Elite""; ""3. The Italian Committee of Eugenic Studies""; ""CHAPTER II Eugenics and Dysgenics of War""; ""1. War as Counter-selection""; ""2. War as Gymnasium""; ""3. War as Laboratory""; ""4. Eugenics and the “Sons of the Enemy�""; ""CHAPTER III Regenerating Italy (1919�1924)""
""1. Ettore Levi and the IPAS Campaign for Birth Control""""2. A Concrete Proposal: Premarital Certificates""; ""3. Sterilization and Euthanasia""; ""4. The Work of the “Useless�: Mental Hygiene in Italy""; ""CHAPTER IV Quality through Quantity: Eugenics in Fascist Italy""; ""1. Corrado Gini�s Hegemony: Demography and “Regenerative� Eugenics""; ""2. Constitutionalism and “Latin� Eugenics: Nicola Pende�s Biotypological Institute""; ""3. Demography and Biotypology: the Laboratory of Statistics at Milan Catholic University""; ""CHAPTER V Eugenics and Racism (1938�1943)""
""1. Biological Racism and Hereditarian Eugenics""""2. Environmentalist Eugenics: Psychological and Anthropo-geographical Racism""; ""3. Esoteric-traditionalist Racism and Eugenics: Julius Evola""; ""4. Assortative Mating and Racism""; ""5. Toward a National Genetic Center""; ""CHAPTER VI Toward a New Eugenics""; ""1. SIGE Schisms: Genetics against Eugenics""; ""2. From Premarital Examination to Genetic Counseling""; ""3. Eugenics and Catholic Medical Genetics: Luigi Geddaand the “Gregorio Mendel� Institute""
""CHAPTER VII Against UNESCO: Italia n Eugenics and American Scientific Racism""""1. The IAAEE and The Mankind Quarterly (1959�1965)""; ""2. Meticciato di Guerra: Luigi Gedda and Reginald Ruggles Gates""; ""3. Corrado Gini and the “Guerrilla War� against UNESCO""; ""4. Epilogue: Race and Modern Science""; ""Conclusions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Names""
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Subject Eugenics -- Italy -- History
Genetics -- Italy -- History
Eugenics.
Genetics.
Italy.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789639776890
9639776890