Table des matières

Francesco Cassata

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter I. Between Lombroso and Pareto

The Italian Way to Eugenics

• 1. Lombroso’s Way: the Problem of Degeneration
• 2. Pareto’s Way: the Problem of the Elite
• 3. The Italian Committee of Eugenic Studies

Chapter II. Eugenics and Dysgenics of War

• 1. War as Counter-selection
• 2. War as Gymnasium
• 3. War as Laboratory
• 4. Eugenics and the “Sons of the Enemy”

Chapter III. Regenerating Italy (1919–1924)

• 1. Ettore Levi and the IPAS Campaign for Birth Control
• 2. A Concrete Proposal: Premarital Certificates
• 3. Sterilization and Euthanasia
• 4. The Work of the “Useless”: Mental Hygiene in Italy

Chapter IV. Quality through quantity

Eugenics in Fascist Italy

• 1. Corrado Gini’s Hegemony: Demography and “Regenerative” Eugenics
• 2. Constitutionalism and “Latin” Eugenics: Nicola Pende’s Biotypological Institute
• 3. Demography and Biotypology: the Laboratory of Statistics at Milan Catholic University

Chapter V. Eugenics and Racism (1938–1943)

• 1. Biological Racism and Hereditarian Eugenics
• 2. Environmentalist Eugenics: Psychological and Anthropo-geographical Racism
• 3. Esoteric-traditionalist Racism and Eugenics: Julius Evola
• 4. Assortative Mating and Racism
• 5. Toward a National Genetic Center

Chapter VI. Toward a new Eugenics

• 1. SIGE Schisms: Genetics against Eugenics
• 2. From Premarital Examination to Genetic Counseling
• 3. Eugenics and Catholic Medical Genetics: Luigi Gedda and the “Gregorio Mendel” Institute

Chapter VII. Against UNESCO

Italian Eugenics and American scientific racism

• 1. The IAAEE and The Mankind Quarterly (1959–1965)
• 2. Meticciato di Guerra: Luigi Gedda and Reginald Ruggles Gates
• 3. Corrado Gini and the “Guerrilla War” against UNESCO
• 4. Epilogue: Race and Modern Science

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index of names