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This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France showed a growing interest in natalist, neo-Larmarckian, social hygiene, racist, and other biologically based movements as a response to the perception that French society was in a state of decline and degeneration. William Schneider's study provides a fascinating account of attempts to apply new discoveries in biology and medicine toward the improvement in the inherited biological quality of the population through such measures as birth control, premarital examinations, sterilization, and immigration restriction. It is the first attempt to set forth the major components of French eugenics both for comparison with other countries and to show the interaction of the various movements that comprised it.

Eugenics --- Eugénisme --- Moral and ethical aspects --- History --- Aspect moral --- Histoire --- -Eugenics --- -Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- -Moral and ethical aspects --- Eugénisme --- Homiculture --- Arts and Humanities

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This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine. This otherwise beneficent medical procedure also created a "royal road" for microorganisms, and thus played a central

AIDS (Disease) --- Blood banks --- Blood --- Banked blood --- Blood transfusion service --- Blood transfusion services --- Tissue banks --- Bloodmobiles --- Body fluids --- Fear of blood --- Epidemiology. --- Risk management --- Transfusion --- History. --- Transportation

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"Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery"--

Medicine --- Medicine --- Medicine --- Medical policy --- World health --- Medicine --- History of Medicine --- Global Health --- History, 19th Century --- History, 20th Century --- History --- History --- Research --- History --- History --- History --- History --- history --- China