Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy

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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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