Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Latin eugenics was a scientific cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as 'Latin' sharing genealogical linguistic religious and cultural origins.<br/><br/><i>Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective</i> offers a comparative nuanced approach to eugenics as a scientific programme as well as a cultural and political phenomenon. It examines the commonalities of eugenics in 'Latin' Europe and Latin America. As a program to achieve the social and political goals of modern welfare systems Latin eugenics strongly influenced the complex relationship of the state to the individual. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources in many languages this book offers the first history of Latin eugenics in Europe and the Americas.