Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine Series)
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This book examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France showed a growing interest in natalist, neo-Lamarckian, social hygiene, racist, and other biologically-based movements as a response to the perception that French society was in a...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521374987
ISBN13:9780521374989
Release Date:November 1990
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:404 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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