Continuities and ruptures in the history of eugenics: an analysis from Renato Kehl publications in the Post-World War II

Authors

  • Leonardo Dallacqua de Carvalho Fundação Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ
  • Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste – Unicentro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2017v35n3p887

Abstract

 

Overall, the period after World War II is characterized as a turning point or discontinuance of racial theories and debate about racial identity, especially when referring to the history of eugenics. From the analysis of medical work of eugenicist Renato Kehl, the aim of this study is to investigate the continuities and discontinuities of eugenic through this author, trying to understand the way that eugenic ideas gained in the post-World War II. The continuity of Kehl publications on eugenics in the 1940s to 1960s allows us to observe the development of this debate in a context of contestation to the Eugenics theories.

 

 

 

 

 

Author Biographies

Leonardo Dallacqua de Carvalho, Fundação Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ

Mestre em História pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP).

 

Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste – Unicentro

Doutor em História das Ciências  pela Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) . Professor do Departamento de História da Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste do Paraná (UNICENTRO).

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Published

2017-12-31

How to Cite

Carvalho, L. D. de, & Souza, V. S. de. (2017). Continuities and ruptures in the history of eugenics: an analysis from Renato Kehl publications in the Post-World War II. Perspectiva, 35(3), 887–910. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2017v35n3p887

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 3 (2017): Perspectiva V. 35 n. 3 2017

Section

Volume 35, número 3, 2017

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