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Building the New Man (CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine) - Hardcover

Cassata, Francesco

 
9789639776838: Building the New Man (CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9639776831 ISBN 13: 9789639776838
Publisher: Central European University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. Discusses several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pre-fascist period and the post-WW2 transition from fascist and racial eugenics to medical and human genetics. As far as fascist eugenics is concerned, the book provides a refreshing analysis, considering Italian eugenics as the most important case-study in order to define Latin eugenics as an alternative model to its Anglo-American, German and Scandinavian counterparts. Analyses in detail the nature-nurture debate during the State racist campaign in fascist Italy (1938–1943) as a boundary tool in the contraposition between the different institutional, political and ideological currents of fascist racism.

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About the Author

Francesco Cassata received his PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Turin. He published extensively on the ideology of Italian fascism and neo-fascism, and on the history of fascist racism. He is also author of the first in-depth study of Lysenkoism in Italy. His current research project concerns the Italian geneticist Adriano Buzzati-Traverso and the development of molecular biology in Italy.

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Publisher
Central European University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9639776831
ISBN 13 
9789639776838
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
438