Quality and Quantity by William H Schneider
This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France showed a growing interest in natalist, neo-Larmarckian, social hygiene, racist, and other biologically based movements as a response to the perception that French society was in a state of decline and degeneration. William Schneider's study provides a fascinating account of attempts to apply new discoveries in biology and medicine toward the improvement in the inherited biological quality of the population through such measures as birth control, premarital examinations, sterilization, and immigration restriction. It is the first attempt to set forth the major components of French eugenics both for comparison with other countries and to show the interaction of the various movements that comprised it.-
The Science of Woman
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The Renaissance Notion of Woman
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Public Health in British India
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Vital Accounts
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Making Sense of Illness
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Spreading Germs
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Unnatural History
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Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
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The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London
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AIDS and Contemporary History
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Last Resort
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Mystical Bedlam
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Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
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The Physical and the Moral
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Bilharzia
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Victorian Lunacy
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International Health Organisations and Movements, 19181939
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The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820
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Science and Empire
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Public Health in Papua New Guinea
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Charitable Knowledge
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Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770-1830
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Joan Baptista Van Helmont
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Mission and Method
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Morbid Appearances
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Medicine before the Plague
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Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935
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Abortion, Doctors and the Law
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Patients and Practitioners
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Preserve your Love for Science
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Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland
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The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science
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Ordered to Care
"A strength of the book is its comparative perspective" paul Weindling, Times Higher Education Supplement
William H. Schneider is Professor of History and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs at Indiana University and Purdue University, Indianapolis. Prof. Schneider's research interests cover French and African history, as well as the history of science and medicine. A former Fulbright scholar, Prof. Schneider is the author of An Empire for the Masses: The French Popular Image of Africa, 1870-1900 and Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in 20th Century France. He has also published articles in the Journal of Modern History and French Historical Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521374989 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521374987 |
| Title | Quality and Quantity |
| Author | William H Schneider |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In The History Of Medicine |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1990-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 404 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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