Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Marius Turda is Reader in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK.Aaron Gillette is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA.

• Introduction1. Precursors2. Early Latin Eugenics3. Latin Eugenics in Interwar Europe4. Latin Eugenics, Catholicism and Sterilization5. Eugenics in Interwar Latin America6. The Latin Eugenics Federation7. Latin Eugenics and Scientific RacismConclusion Epilogue: Latin Eugenics after 1945BibliographyIndex

This is a valuable contribution to the conceptual and practical history of the international eugenics movement ... Marius Turda and Aaron Gillette should be commended for providing a rich transnational history that avoids ‘glossing over’ the specific national contexts, in Europe and the Americas