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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452664003321

Autore

Spektorowski Alberto <1952-, >

Titolo

Politics of eugenics : productionism, population, and national welfare / / Alberto Spektorowski and Lisa Saban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-00884-1

0-203-74023-8

1-135-00885-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in extremism and democracy ; ; 19

Altri autori (Persone)

SabanLisa

Disciplina

363.9/2

Soggetti

Eugenics

Biopolitics

Emigration and immigration - Government policy

Social policy

Multiculturalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Politics of Eugenics; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Introduction; 1 Eugenics and productive socialism; 2 From ""race hygiene"" to ""national-productivist hygiene""; 3 The bioethical turn to biopolitics: the emergence of bio-nationalism; 4 The bio-regulation return of eugenics for a new century of massive immigration and multiculturalism; 5 European countries and eugenic productivism gospel potential convergence trends in eugenic productivist population policy; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<P></P><P>This book analyzes whether the ""new debate on genetics"" owes a debt to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s. More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same ""eugenic rationale"" used in the 1930s is philosophical akin to a new rationality unfolding in some Western European welfare societies that find themselves trapped in the modern dilemma of choosing between increasing immigration and population growth that leads to economic prosperity on the one hand, or halting immigration,



protecting national identity, and suffering economic stagnation on