La eugenesia en España, entre la ciencia y la doctrina sociopolítica

Abstract

Some Spanish profesionals, almost totalitarian, developed, along the twenties and thirties of the XXth century, a series of eugenical ideas of great political background and socially conservative. They defended ideas like heredability of madness and criminality and their linking with pauperism, and they considered that the revolutionary ideas of the working class and is behaviour were psicotic and hereditary. Everything developed as an ideological weapon for the political repression after the Civil War, as it happened to the research of Dr. Vallejo Nágera with political prisioners.