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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 431–443.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Alexandra Minna Stern Abstract In 1932, the Mexican state of Veracruz passed Latin America’s only eugenic sterilization law. Building on the foundational scholarship of Nancy Leys Stepan, this article critically examines Veracruz’s eugenics movement, exploring how it intersected with public health...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (3): 351–353.
Published: 01 August 1946
...Arthur P. Whitaker Greater America. Essays in Honor of Herbert Eugene Bolton . Edited by Ogden Adele . ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1945 . Pp. 723 . Maps. $6.00 .) Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Marcos Cueto Despite these problems, this work systematizes some essential information on the origins of Latin eugenics during the turn of the twentieth century, helps us understand the development of the official goal of modernization in Latin American societies during the interwar period...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 455–486.
Published: 01 August 2014
... campaigns carried out in Colombia between 1890 and 1940. I argue that these social engineering actions, aimed at achieving the physiological regeneration of the population, formed part of the local eugenics movement, since the ideal of producing efficient working bodies was conceived of as a heritable...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 February 1990
...José Cuello Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Father Eugene H. Korth died of cancer in Milwaukee on July 28, 1987 at the age of 69. He was born on November 23, 1917 in Mankato, Minnesota to a German-Norwegian family with a strong religious tradition. Two uncles on his mother’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Claudia Stern The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile . By Sarah Walsh . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2021 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 223 pp. Cloth, $50.00 . Copyright © 2023...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Martin S. Stabb Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 With the death of Harold Eugene Davis this past September, Latin Americanists have lost a colleague of great breadth, rich accomplishment, and generous service to the profession. As is often the case with regard to people of his...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1953) 33 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 February 1953
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 82.
Published: 01 February 1978
... Association (now the Organization of American Historians), and the American Catholic Historical Association. William Eugene Shiels, S.J., died on October 22, 1976, in Cincinnati, Ohio, following a long bout with arteriosclerosis. Born in Cincinnati in 1897, he attended Xavier University in the same city...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 499–500.
Published: 01 August 1979
...A. P. Nasatir Herbert Eugene Bolton: The Historian and the Man, 1870-1953 . By Bannon John Francis . Foreword by Kinnaird Lawrence . Tucson , 1978 . University of Arizona Press . Illustrations. Map. Chronology. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 296 . Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Aline Helg The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America . By Stepan Nancy Leys . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1991 . Notes. Index . viii , 210 pp. Cloth . $31.50 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Eugenics, or the movement...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 283–318.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Andrés H. Reggiani Abstract The article explores the reception of eugenics in Argentina in the 1930s. It aims, first, to place eugenics as a topic of expert and public concern against the background of the “demographic fears” associated with the decline of the birthrate among the white population...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1954) 34 (1): 81–83.
Published: 01 February 1954
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1953) 33 (2): 294–296.
Published: 01 May 1953
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and the social sciences. In four books and numerous articles on Latin American history of science, she pioneered a valuable approach, examining a moment in history deeply embedded in its local culture, time, and place. 1 Her studies of national science in Brazil, the history of eugenics in multiple sites...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 23–46.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Eduardo A. Zimmermann During the 1920s and 1930s the eugenics movement reappeared with some momentum in academic and political circles. Víctor Delfino, who had attended the First International Congress in 1912, founded in 1918 the short-lived Argentine Eugenics Society. This was followed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 387–389.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston) at the 2007 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Recognizing Nancy Leys Stepan’s pioneering and wide-ranging historical research on Latin American eugenics, scientific inquiry, public health, and tropical nature, the organizers invited members...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 41–81.
Published: 01 February 1999
...” with nation—to the 1930 United States census must be viewed in this dual light, formed by and through eugenic, medicalized, and statistical knowledges about human bodies and identities. Framing my exploration of one conjuncture and facet of United States modernity through the imbricated triad of buildings...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 544–546.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and children's medicine (chapter 5), the rise of germ theory in biomedical research (chapter 6), the pandemics of influenza (1918) and HIV/AIDS (chapter 7), eugenics in the twentieth century (chapter 8), psychiatric institutions (chapter 9), public health between 1889 and 1945 (chapter 10), and health...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 568.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Charles R. Ewen Pedro Menéndez de Avilés . Edited by Lyon Eugene . Spanish Borderlands Source-books no. 24 . New York : Garland , 1995 . Notes. Bibliography. xxv , 610 pp. Cloth . $62.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Columbian Quincentenary has...