The Hour of Eugenics"" - 9780801497957

The Hour of Eugenics\""Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America\nAuthor(s): Nancy Leys Stepan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801497957, 978-0801497957\nSynopsis\nStepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics.?American Historical Review\n\n Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated \""race improvement\"" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology of Nazi Germany.\n\n Exa.