TY - BOOK AU - Stepan,Nancy Leys TI - The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America SN - 9781501702266 AV - HQ755 U1 - 363.9/2/098 PY - 1996///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - History KW - Latin American & Caribbean Studies KW - HISTORY / Latin America / General KW - bisacsh KW - Race relations eugenics KW - Race relations latin american KW - Race relations medical KW - beginnings of eugenics KW - better breeding KW - egenics KW - eugenetics KW - eugenics belief KW - eugenics experiments KW - eugenics hereditary KW - eugenics history KW - eugenics ideas KW - eugenics in Latin America KW - eugenics latin america KW - eugenics medical KW - eugenics movement KW - eugenics policies KW - eugenics practice KW - eugenics racism KW - eugenics science KW - eugenics scientists KW - eugenics social movement KW - eugenics social reform KW - eugenics theoretical KW - eugenics theory KW - eugenics trials KW - eugenics white supremacy KW - eugenics KW - germany eugenics KW - history of medicine KW - idea of race KW - improving human race KW - latin american history KW - latin american medical history KW - literature on eugenics KW - matrimonial eugenics KW - medical eugenics KW - medical history eugenics KW - nazi eugenics KW - nazi germany eugenics KW - negative eugenics KW - new genentics KW - politics of eugenics KW - race and ethnicity in latin america KW - racial domination KW - racial purity KW - racist practices KW - social theory KW - ugenics KW - uses of human heredity KW - what is eugenics KW - white supremacy N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Science and Social Knowledge --; I. The New Genetics and the Beginnings of Eugenics --; 2. Eugenics in La tin America : Its Origins and Institutional Ecology --; 3. Racial Poisons and the Politics of Heredity in Latin 63 America in the 1920s --; 4. "Matrimonial Eugenics": Gender and the Construction of Negative Eugenics --; 5. National Identities and Racial Transformations --; 6. U.S., Pan American, and Latin Visions of Eugenics --; 7. Conclusion: Science and the Politics of Interpretation --; Index; restricted access N2 - Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate. This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics.―American Historical ReviewEugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology of Nazi Germany.Examining for the first time how eugenics was taken up by scientists and social reformers in Latin America, Nancy Leys Stepan compares the eugenics movements in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina with the more familiar cases of Britain, the United States, and Germany.In this highly original account, Stepan sheds new light on the role of science in reformulating issues of race, gender, reproduction, and public health in an era when the focus on national identity was particularly intense. Drawing upon a rich body of evidence concerning the technical publications and professional meetings of Latin American eugenicists, she examines how they adapted eugenic principles to local contexts between the world wars. Stepan shows that Latin American eugenicists diverged considerably from their counterparts in Europe and the United States in their ideological approach and their interpretations of key texts concerning heredity UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501702266 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501702266 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501702266/original ER -