TY - BOOK ID - 14199725 TI - Building the new man : eugenics, racial science and genetics in twentieth-century Italy AU - Cassata, Francesco. AU - O'Loughlin, Erin. PY - 2011 SN - 9639776831 2821815247 9786613256720 128325672X 9639776890 1461903165 9781461903161 9789639776890 9781283256728 9789639776838 PB - Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Eugenics KW - Genetics KW - History. KW - Homiculture KW - Race improvement KW - Euthenics KW - Heredity KW - Involuntary sterilization KW - Biology KW - Embryology KW - Mendel's law KW - Adaptation (Biology) KW - Breeding KW - Chromosomes KW - Mutation (Biology) KW - Variation (Biology) KW - Eugenics, Fascism, History of science, Italy, Medical history, Medical policy, Racial studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14199725 AB - 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 themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pre-fascist period and the post-WW2 transition from fascist and racial eugenics to medical and human genetics. As far as fascist eugenics is concerned, the book provides a refreshing analysis, considering Italian eugenics as the most important case-study in order to define Latin eugenics as an alternative model to its Anglo-American, German and Scandinavian counterparts. Analyses in detail the nature-nurture debate during the State racist campaign in fascist Italy (1938–1943) as a boundary tool in the contraposition between the different institutional, political and ideological currents of fascist racism. ER -