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Quality and Quantity - The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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Quality and Quantity - The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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This book, first published in 1991, 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-Larmarckian, social hygiene, racist, and
other biologically based movements as a response to the perception
that French society was in a state of decline and degeneration.
William Schneider's study provides a fascinating account of
attempts to apply new discoveries in biology and medicine toward
the improvement in the inherited biological quality of the
population through such measures as birth control, premarital
examinations, sterilization, and immigration restriction. It is the
first attempt to set forth the major components of French eugenics
both for comparison with other countries and to show the
interaction of the various movements that comprised it.
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