Eugenistas, pero con prudencia

Claudio Pogliano

doi:10.3989/asclepio.1999.v51.i2.312

Eugenistas, pero con prudencia

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Claudio Pogliano Universidad de Turín - Instituto y Museo de Historia de la Ciencia - Florencia (Italia)

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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1999.v51.i2.312

Abstract

Thinking that one could not describe eugenics like a unique movement, since numerous bound varians took place related to the geographical and cultural context, this article tries to demostrate the peculiarity of the Italian case. If already in 1889 Giuseppe Sergi wanted that the artificial selection take it to end what should make the natural, avoiding the risk of the so called «degeneration», only in the face of the First World War seems to grow the alarm for the decadent quality of the population, finding a more and more wide echo. In 1919 the Siges was born (Società italiana de genetica ed eugenica) shocked under the impression of the difusse fear about the butcher the war had caused. From there from now on fastens a «nazional» direction closely related to the traditional thought and also with the new political temper. A «moderate» direction, Fascist, Catholic, that was built in consonance with the pronatalism of the regime and in rough polemic with the presumed Anglo-Saxon eugenics aberration.

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1999-12-30

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Pogliano, C. (1999). Eugenistas, pero con prudencia. Asclepio, 51(2), 101–116. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1999.v51.i2.312

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Vol. 51 No. 2 (1999)

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