CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy
1st Edition
By Francesco Cassata
May 15, 2011
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 ...
Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Promitzer, Marius Turda, Sevasti Trubeta
January 20, 2011
This volume is a collection of chapters that deal with issues of health, hygiene and eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945, specifically, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. Its major concern is to examine the transfer of medical ideas to society via local, national and ...
Demography and Nation: Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria
1st Edition
By Svetla Baloutzova
January 10, 2011
The monograph investigates the origins of state policy toward population and the family in Bulgaria. Reconstructs the evolution of state legislation in the field of social policy toward the family between the two World Wars, colored by concerns about the national good and demographic considerations...