Building the New Man

Informationen zum Autor Francesco Cassata received his PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Turin. He published extensively on the ideology of Italian fascism and neo-fascism, and on the history of fascist racism. He is also author of the first in-depth study of Lysenkoism in Italy. His current research project concerns the Italian geneticist Adriano Buzzati-Traverso and the development of molecular biology in Italy. Klappentext 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.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Between Lombroso and Pareto: the Italian way to eugenics 1.Lombroso's Way: the Problem of Degeneration 2. Pareto's Way: the Problem of the Elite 3. The Italian Committee of Eugenic Studies Chapter 2 Eugenics and dysgenics of war 1. The War as Counter-selection 2. The War as a Gymnasium 3. The War as a Laboratory Chapter 3 Regenerating Italy (1919-1924) 1. Ettore Levi and the IPAS Campaign for Birth Control 2. A Concrete Proposal: the Premarital Certificate 3. Sterilization and Euthanasia 4. The Work of the UselessA": Mental Hygiene in Italy Chapter 4 Quality through quantity: eugenics in fascist Italy 1. Corrado Gini's Hegemony: Demography and RegenerativeA" Eugenics Constitutionalism and Latin Eugenics: Nicola Pende's Biotypological Institute 3. Demography and Biotypology: the Laboratory of Statistics at Milan Catholic University Chapter 5 Eugenics and racism (1938-1943) 1. Biological Racism and Hereditarian Eugenics 2. Environmentalist Eugenics: Psychological and Anthropo-geographical Racism 3. Esoteric-traditionalist Racism and Eugenics-Julius Evola 4. Assortative Mating and Racism 5. Toward a National Genetic Centre Chapter 6 Toward a new eugenics 1. SIGE Schisms: Genetics against Eugenics 2. From Premarital Examination to Genetic Counselling 3. Eugenics and Catholic Medical Genetics: Luigi Gedda and the G. MendelA" Institute Chapter 7 Against UNESCO: Italian eugenics and American scientific racism 1. The IAAEE and The Mankind Quarterly (1959-1965) 2. Meticciato di Guerra: Luigi Gedda and Reginald Ruggles Gates 3. Corrado Gini and the Guerrilla WarA" against UNESCO 4. Epilogue: Race and Modern ScienceA" Conclusions Bibliography List of abbreviations for archive sources

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