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Catholicism, race and empire : eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950 /

This monograph places the science and ideology of eugenics in early twentieth-century Portugal within the context of the development of eugenics in other countries in the same period. The author argues that three factors governed the impact of eugenics in Portugal: a low level of institutionalizatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cleminson, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014.
Colección:CEU press studies in the history of medicine
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introductino
  • The birth of eugenics in Portugal : early debates and the social and scientific context, 1900-1927
  • Between consolidation and institutionalisation : eugenics, Catholic opposition and the Salazar regime, 1927-1933
  • Apogee and decline : from the establishment of the eugenics society to dissolution into the centre for demographic studies, 1934-1960
  • Race, eugenics and miscegenation in the Portuguese metropole and overseas territories
  • Conclusion.