Introduction: Science and Social Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Science and Social Knowledge 1
5. I. The New Genetics and the Beginnings of Eugenics 21
6. 2. Eugenics in La tin America : Its Origins and Institutional Ecology 35
7. 3. Racial Poisons and the Politics of Heredity in Latin 63 America in the 1920s 63
8. 4. "Matrimonial Eugenics": Gender and the Construction of Negative Eugenics 102
9. 5. National Identities and Racial Transformations 135
10. 6. U.S., Pan American, and Latin Visions of Eugenics 171
11. 7. Conclusion: Science and the Politics of Interpretation 196
12. Index 203