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| Author(s): |
Valdeir del Cont
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Total Authors: 1
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade Paulista - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Scientiae Studia; v. 11, n. 3, p. 511-530, 2013-00-00. |
| Abstract | |
One of the characteristics of the eugenic movement was the formation of an institutionalized structure. This was initiated with Francis Galton, but it is in the United States that eugenics acquires institutional formatting that would serve as model for various eugenics initiatives in other parts of the world. In this text we intend to analyze some of the conditions that contributed for eugenics to be presented as a scientific proposal of social control of traces or characteristics considered genetically determined. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/15627-3 - MANIPULATION AND CONTROL OF LIFE: The implications of biomedical practices and knowledge of biotechnology and genomic in the anthropological debates about symbolic-value representation about beauty, body, health, life and death. |
| Grantee: | Valdeir Donizete Del Cont |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |