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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 March 2010
      30 November 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511572937
      9780521374989
      9780521524612
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572937
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.686kg, 404 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 404 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Science Handbooks, History, Regional History after 1500, History of Medicine
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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    Subjects:
    Science Handbooks, History, Regional History after 1500, History of Medicine
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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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.

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    "A strength of the book is its comparative perspective." paul Weindling, Times Higher Education Supplement

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