Science and pseudo science: racist eugenics in Italy

In the present article we briefly discuss the historical premises of eugenics. Differences and some analogies between the Latin and the German way of eugenics in the 20th century are presented, until the tragic antisemitic turn. The fate of some children in the South Tyrol border region is also disc...

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Autores principales: Patriarca, Carlo, Modena, Piergiorgio, Massimino, Maura, Gibilisco, Fabio, Barbareschi, Mattia, Conca, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pacini Editore srl 2023
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Historical Pathologica
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10463001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36704872
http://dx.doi.org/10.32074/1591-951X-844
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author Patriarca, Carlo
Modena, Piergiorgio
Massimino, Maura
Gibilisco, Fabio
Barbareschi, Mattia
Conca, Andreas
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description In the present article we briefly discuss the historical premises of eugenics. Differences and some analogies between the Latin and the German way of eugenics in the 20th century are presented, until the tragic antisemitic turn. The fate of some children in the South Tyrol border region is also discussed, as well as the role of several anatomo-pathologists as willing executors of autopsies on the victims of the eugenic project of eliminating mentally and physically disabled people.
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spelling pubmed-104630012023-08-30 Science and pseudo science: racist eugenics in Italy Patriarca, Carlo Modena, Piergiorgio Massimino, Maura Gibilisco, Fabio Barbareschi, Mattia Conca, Andreas Pathologica Historical Pathologica In the present article we briefly discuss the historical premises of eugenics. Differences and some analogies between the Latin and the German way of eugenics in the 20th century are presented, until the tragic antisemitic turn. The fate of some children in the South Tyrol border region is also discussed, as well as the role of several anatomo-pathologists as willing executors of autopsies on the victims of the eugenic project of eliminating mentally and physically disabled people. Pacini Editore srl 2023-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10463001/ /pubmed/36704872 http://dx.doi.org/10.32074/1591-951X-844 Text en © 2023 Copyright by Società Italiana di Anatomia Patologica e Citopatologia Diagnostica, Divisione Italiana della International Academy of Pathology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access journal distributed in accordance with the CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) license: the work can be used by mentioning the author and the license, but only for non-commercial purposes and only in the original version. For further information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
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