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• catalog abstract ""Since Its Rise as a scientific discipline in the late nineteenth century, eugenics has both fascinated and repelled generations of biologists, doctors, social reformers, politicians, and historians. Much has been reported and debated on this controversial subject, from Hitler's Germany to The Bell Curve, yet studies have generally neglected Eastern Europeans' interest in eugenics. Between 1918 and 1948, a growing group of professionals - prominent physicians, academicians, scientists, and sociologists - set out to transform Romanian health care, society, and the state according to the gospel of eugenics." "Maria Bucur sheds new light on eugenics in Eastern Europe by focusing on Romania during the period between World Wars I and II. She demonstrates how Romanian eugenicists helped change the concepts of social organization and reform, of public health and education, of the role of science in generating social reform, of women's roles, and of the state's responsibility for social welfare. Bucur also illustrates their role in generating important public health legislation, from the broad-based Moldovan Law of 1930 and the legalization of abortion in cases based on eugenic criteria, to restrictive measures and pressures placed on Romanian military and government officials against miscegenation." "Bucur's interpretation of eugenics in interwar Romania raises issues relevant to today's scientific culture. Should the modern welfare state regulate the lives and reproductive rights of its citizens? Are modernization, social organization, and progress facilitated in any way by eugenics? Scientists and policymakers continue to ask questions similar to those posed by Romanian eugenicists a half-century ago. With this book, Bucur sets the stage for an intellectual dialogue with other historians, scientists, and policymakers."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12377605.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""Since Its Rise as a scientific discipline in the late nineteenth century, eugenics has both fascinated and repelled generations of biologists, doctors, social reformers, politicians, and historians. Much has been reported and debated on this controversial subject, from Hitler's Germany to The Bell Curve, yet studies have generally neglected Eastern Europeans' interest in eugenics. Between 1918 and 1948, a growing group of professionals - prominent physicians, academicians, scientists, and sociologists - set out to transform Romanian health care, society, and the state according to the gospel of eugenics." "Maria Bucur sheds new light on eugenics in Eastern Europe by focusing on Romania during the period between World Wars I and II. She demonstrates how Romanian eugenicists helped change the concepts of social organization and reform, of public health and education, of the role of science in generating social reform, of women's roles, and of the state's responsibility for social welfare. Bucur also illustrates their role in generating important public health legislation, from the broad-based Moldovan Law of 1930 and the legalization of abortion in cases based on eugenic criteria, to restrictive measures and pressures placed on Romanian military and government officials against miscegenation." "Bucur's interpretation of eugenics in interwar Romania raises issues relevant to today's scientific culture. Should the modern welfare state regulate the lives and reproductive rights of its citizens? Are modernization, social organization, and progress facilitated in any way by eugenics? Scientists and policymakers continue to ask questions similar to those posed by Romanian eugenicists a half-century ago. With this book, Bucur sets the stage for an intellectual dialogue with other historians, scientists, and policymakers."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-291) and index.".
• catalog extent "298 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0822941724".
• catalog isPartOf "Pitt series in Russian and East European studies.".
• catalog isPartOf "Series in Russian and East European studies.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,".
• catalog spatial "Romania".
• catalog spatial "Romania.".
• catalog subject "2002 J-189".
• catalog subject "363.9/2/09498 21".
• catalog subject "Eugenics Romania History.".
• catalog subject "HQ 755.5.R6 B926e 2002".
• catalog subject "HQ755.5.R6 B8 2002".
• catalog subject "History, 20th Century Romania.".
• catalog subject "Public Policy Romania.".
• catalog subject "Social Control, Formal Romania.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "Eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania / Maria Bucur.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".