William H. Schneider

Quality and Quantity

The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France
Herausgeber: Jones, Colin; Rosenberg, Charles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An account of eugenicists' efforts to improve the inherited biological quality of the French population.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9780521374989
• ISBN-10: 0521374987
• Artikelnr.: 26952795

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Degeneration and regeneration
3. From puericulture to eugenics
4. The French eugenics society to 1920
5. Postwar eugenics and social hygiene
6. The campaign for a premarital exam
7. French eugenics in the thirties
8. Eugenics, race and blood
9. Race and immigration
10. Vichy and after
11. Conclusion
Notes.