Eugenics, medicine and psychiatry in Peru

Stucchi-Portocarrero, Santiago

dc.contributor.author	Stucchi-Portocarrero, Santiago
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-30T03:10:46Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-30T03:10:46Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4062
dc.description.abstract	Eugenics was defined by Galton as 'the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race'. In Peru, eugenics was related to social medicine and mental hygiene, in accordance with the neo-Lamarckian orientation, that predominated in Latin America. Peruvian eugenists assumed the mission of fighting hereditary and infectious diseases, malnutrition, alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, criminality and everything that threatened the future of the 'Peruvian race'. There were some enthusiastic advocates of 'hard' eugenic measures, such as forced sterilization and eugenic abortion, but these were never officially implemented in Peru (except for the compulsory sterilization campaign during the 1995-2000 period). Eugenics dominated scientific discourse during the first half of the twentieth century, but eugenic discourse did not disappear completely until the 1970s.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartofseries	History of Psychiatry
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Peru	en_US
dc.subject	Humans	en_US
dc.subject	Eugenics	en_US
dc.subject	euthanasia	en_US
dc.subject	forced sterilization	en_US
dc.subject	History, 20th Century	en_US
dc.subject	mental hygiene	en_US
dc.subject	Psychiatry	en_US
dc.subject	racism	en_US
dc.subject	social medicine	en_US
dc.subject	Social Medicine	en_US
dc.title	Eugenics, medicine and psychiatry in Peru	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17741232
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.24
dc.relation.issn	1740-2360