From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico. [PDF]
Sociol Health Illn, 2023 Abstract Eugenic ideas in Mexico were popularised after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) as a way of ‘modernising’ and ‘civilising’ the nation. As a result, eugenic ideas were able to linger and be maintained through different departments, institutions, and individuals from all disciplines. After eugenics was considered a pseudoscience, its practices
Sanchez-Rivera R.
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Freshwater Biology, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 116-140, January 2022., 2022 Abstract Comprehensive assessments of contemporary diatom distributions across the Arctic remain scarce. Furthermore, studies tracking species compositional differences across space and time, as well as diatom responses to climate warming, are mainly limited to paleolimnological studies due to a lack of routine monitoring in lakes and streams across ...
Maria Kahlert +14 more
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‘He didn’t even know there was a dictatorship’: the complicity of a psychoanalyst with the Brazilian military regime [PDF]
, 2017 The history of psychoanalysis in Brazil during the civilian-military dictatorship (1964-1985) has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years as an instance of institutional complicity with authoritarian rule.
Frosh, Stephen +2 more
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Ejercicio físico y gimnasia femeninos en Uruguay: cuerpos, género y sexualidades en la formación del magisterio de educación física en los 1950s [PDF]
, 2023 In the 1950s, Uruguay had outstanding international recognition at an educational and cultural level and was called “the Switzerland of the Americas”. In this context, the Third Pan-American Congress of Physical Education was held in Montevideo.
Dogliotti, Paola, Quitzau, Evelise
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Psychoanalyzing intelligence: Béla Székely’s Los Tests [PDF]
, 2020 This paper aims to analyze the definition of intelligence that appeared in the book Los Tests (1946) written by BélaSzékely, a Hungarian psychologist who emigrated to Argentina in 1938.
Molinari, Victoria
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Anthropological knowledge under redaction: Meditations on race, health, and aesthetics. [PDF]
Med Anthropol Q, 2023 Emerging from experimentations with form during our 2021 inaugural BFHSS Collaboratory, this article dabbles in redaction while examining logics of race and aesthetics embedded in how health is defined, measured, and depicted.
Edu UF.
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Beyond Prejudice and Pride: The Human Sciences in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America [PDF]
, 2013 Grappling with problematics of status and hierarchy, recent literature on the history of the human sciences in Latin America has gone through three overlapping phases.
Rodriguez, Julia E.
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Optimising and normalising the population through hormone therapies in Italian science, c. 1926-1950 [PDF]
, 2020 This article explores how hormone treatments were used to optimise and normalise individuals under Italian Fascism. It does so by taking the activities of the Biotypological Orthogenetic Institute − an Italian eugenics and endocrinological centre founded
Beccalossi, Chiara
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Insufficient activity of MAPK pathway is a key monitor of Kidney-Yang Deficiency Syndrome. [PDF]
, 2009 OBJECTIVE: To explore the genetic characteristics and molecular regulator of Kidney-Yang Deficiency Syndrome (KDS). DESIGN: A typical KDS family was collected using a questionnaire of cold feeling and a 40-item scoring table of KDS based on Traditional ...
Ding, WJ +9 more
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Roma : capital de un Imperio bajo el signo de la biología política (1936-1942) [PDF]
, 2012 El trabajo interpela la construcción simbólica de Roma y la romanidad como factores de afirmación del poder del fascismo, especialmente luego de proclamarse la creación del Imperio en 1936. Dentro de ese marco, se indaga el papel jugado por la ciencia al
Vallejo, Gustavo
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