God's Eugenicist

Andrés Horacio Reggiani was Tocqueville Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Currently he is Professor of European History at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• ForewordHerman LebovicsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Alexis Carrel, an Ever-Present PastChapter 1. Medicine, Miracles, and PoliticsChapter 2. The Making of a Scientific CelebrityChapter 3. The Best-Selling EugenicistChapter 4. Charles Lindbergh and the Institute of ManChapter 5. The Commitment to VichyChapter 6. Wartime France as Human LaboratoryChapter 7. Reinventing the Eugenicist as a HumanistConclusion: Alexis Carrel as a lieu de mémoireSources and Bibliography

“In this exemplary biography of the Nobel prize–winning surgeon Alexis Carrel, Andres Reggiani manages to provide a balanced account of a man whose life had much about it that was unsavory.” · Bulletin of the History of Medicine“This is a valuable study, then, for anyone interested in the histories of medicine and social policy, as well as the history of Vichy. But one of its chief attributes is to distance itself from the polemical comment which has labelled Carrel as a servant of Nazism and to locate the FFEPH more firmly within the history of social and economic planning in France.” · Modern and Contemporary France"…this book is very good scholarship: thoroughly researched, well-placed in a broader in a historical context, full of curious incidents and contacts (Lindbergh was a close friend)." · Robert Paxton, Columbia University"This is a good and important piece of work that brilliantly brings together the social histories of an individual life, of science, and of ultra-right public policy. Also because of Carrel’s unique careers in the US and France, this work does justice to the international connections of medicine, science, and public social policy." · Herman Lebovics, SUNY, Stony Brook