Biología, medicina y eugenesia en Uruguay

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  • Juan Pedro Barrán Profesor de Historia del Uruguay - Instituto de Ciencias Históricas. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación - Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1999.v51.i2.309

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In this work are analyzed the deep relationships between biology, medicine and society that were settled down in the Uruguay along the XIX century as well as the process of «medicalization» and «biologization» of the social thought that take place along the first decades of the XX century, and the role that played the eugenic ideas and defenders of eugenics in that process.

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Published

1999-12-30

How to Cite

Barrán, J. P. (1999). Biología, medicina y eugenesia en Uruguay. Asclepio, 51(2), 11–50. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1999.v51.i2.309

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