Mayo de 2023
In the 1930s, the Colombian government implemented the Healthy Child Contest to guarantee the future of the “race” and the nation. The contest gained traction in the 1930s with the rise of eugenics in Latin America. This scientific, social, and political international movement aiming to “improve the race” by regulating individuals’ sexuality and reproduction focused its attention on child protection.
In the article In search of the “ideal child”: The Colombian Healthy Child Contest, Professor of Latin-American History and Temporary lecturer at Faculté des Affaires Internationales/Université Le Havre, France, Iván Darío Olaya Peláez argues that it targeted low- and working- classes who were considered as the cause of not only their misery due to their depraved morals and vicious social behaviors but also the supposedly biological degeneration of the national population.
According to the contest’s directives, the candidates must “be exclusively breastfed until the age of six months, not have any signs of hereditary defects, not have any organic defects, and have personal hygienic habits and [dwell] in a hygienic household.”
As a medical and socio-political strategy implemented throughout the Americas, the National Healthy Child Contest remained another prophylactic and educational mechanism to control social health and private life to create a national identity. It also reflects the Colombian Liberal government’s will to “civilise” the population. To attain a higher degree of civilisation, improving education and sanitary conditions was not enough: it was necessary to modify the hereditary and biological component of the population to stop the degeneration process that had already started.
Experts from the Americas widely discussed the importance of implementing the contest during the Pan-American Sanitary and Child’s Congress as well as the three Pan-American Congresses of Eugenics and Homiculture.
About Eugenics:
Maternología, eugenesia y sífilis en España durante el primer franquismo, 1939-1950 El artículo de Ramón Castejón-Bolea y María-Teresa Riquelme-Quiñonero publicado en 2022 en HCS-Manguinhos ha sido incluido en el Anuario InfoRUVID 2022, de la Red de Universidades Valencianas para el fomento de la Investigación, el Desarrollo y la Innovación.
Eugenesia a través de la revista Viva Cien Años, Argentina, 1934-1947 La publicación Viva Cien Años, publicada en Argentina hasta 1947, surgió como un emprendimiento editorial dirigido por un grupo de médicos con una reconocida trayectoria en ámbitos académicos y científicos.
Nuevos aportes a la historia de la eugenesia Reseña del libro “Una historia de la eugenesia. Argentina y las redes biopolíticas internacionales (1912-1945)”, de Marisa Miranda y Gustavo Vallejo, a cargo de Héctor Palma (Universidad Nacional de San Martin).
La eugenesia tardía en Argentina y su estereotipo de familiar Este artículo se ocupa de delinear las características principales del estereotipo de familia promovido por la Sociedad Argentina de Eugenesia, 1945-1970.
Una eugenesia latina Marisa Miranda y Gustavo Vallejo, editores invitados del último número de HCS-Manguinhos, analizan las diferencias entre las denominadas eugenesia anglosajona y eugenesia latina.
Los sinuosos orígenes de la eugenesia Argentina El trabajo discute las disputas e ideologías en el surgimiento de un campo científico entre 1916 y 1932.
¿Por qué lo llaman eugenesia cuando es neomalthusianismo? El debate que se realizó en medios anarquistas españoles entre 1900 y 1936.
Raza y eugenesia en Metrópolis latinas (1880-1945) Julio 2018 La Universidad Nacional de Quilmes ofrece el curso de posgrado ‘Raza y eugenesia en Metrópolis latinas (1880-1945) dirigido a graduados en Ciencias Sociales. Fecha de inscripción: del 1 al 15 de agosto Más informaciones: https://bit.ly/2ujg593 Leer en Manguinhos: Latin Eugenics in a Transnational Context. Hist. cienc….
Eugenesia en el franquismo Se analizan los discursos y las prácticas eugenésicas durante las primeras décadas de la dictadura franquista.
The press and hygiene in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro One of the aspects that received the most attention from nineteenth-century journalists was the hygiene and health of the population of Rio de Janeiro. Women and men became the targets of a series of prescriptions in the press that described how the people of the city should care for their body and health; after all, a healthy body was a prerequisite for shaping men and women suitable to contribute to the future of the Empire.
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Between examining children’s bodies and shaping racial norms, Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha discusses individual examination practices as part of the interventions carried out by the São Paulo State School Medical Inspection Service.
