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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bucur-Deckard, Maria, 1968- Eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2002 (OCoLC)988774234 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Maria Bucur-Deckard |
ISBN: | 0822941724 9780822941729 |
OCLC Number: | 47120297 |
Language Note: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. d.--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996) presented under the title: Disciplining the future, eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania. |
Notes: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996) presented under the title: Disciplining the future, eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania. |
Description: | 298 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. From Cultural Despair to National Rebirth -- 2. The Eugenic Solution: A New Scientific Paradigm -- 3. The Biopolitical State -- 4. Natural Hierarchy and National Values -- 5. Education and Inborn Characteristics -- 6. For the Health of the Nation: Measures in Public Health and Reproductive Control. |
Series Title: | Series in Russian and East European studies. |
Responsibility: | Maria Bucur. |
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Abstract:
Eugenics movements gained momentum throughout Eastern Europe between World Wars I and II. This study demonstrates that the importance of the eugenics movement in Romania rests not so much in the contributions made to the study of science as in the realms of nationalistic ideology.
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"Original, theoretically innovative, vividly written and well-constructed. Thanks to Maria Bucur's path-breaking work, students of Eastern Europe will better understand the immense complexities of Romania's (and the whole region's) espousal of liberal modernity." - Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland "There is nothing comparable to this book in the field. It covers new ground thematically, while shedding considerable light on the hotly disputed Romanian interwar period." - Paul E. Michelson, Huntington College Read more...
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