{"id":15915,"date":"2024-03-02T07:12:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2024-03-04T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:01:06","slug":"salvador-de-toledo-piza-jr-and-the-brazilian-eugenics-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/salvador-de-toledo-piza-jr-and-the-brazilian-eugenics-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr. and the Brazilian eugenics movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">February 2023<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15917\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/hcsm\/a\/9KSkxfKskRZ6ptXKPPK7Kqh\/?lang=en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15917\" class=\"wp-image-15917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BoletimdeEugenia_1932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boletim de Eugenia, n. 39, 1932. Source: BN Digital.\u00a0Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr was a former Boletim de Eugenia periodical director.\u00a0The publication carried the propaganda of eugenics with a Mendelian base led by the most radical wing of the movement.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eugenics reached its peak in Brazil during the interwar period, bringing together both moderate positions and radical and racist ones. The article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/hcsm\/a\/9KSkxfKskRZ6ptXKPPK7Kqh\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Between scientific dissemination and late-stage eugenics: ruptures and continuations in the intellectual trajectory of Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., 1898-1988<\/a>,\u00a0analyzes the eugenicist ideology in the work of Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., a geneticist and professor at the Escola Superior de Agricultura \u201cLuiz de Queiroz,\u201d in S\u00e3o Paulo&#8217;s countryside, focusing on how\u00a0Brazilian eugenicists reconfigured\u00a0their practices after the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Documentary research involving articles, correspondence, and notes from this former director of the\u00a0<i>Boletim de Eugenia<\/i>\u00a0investigates the reshaping of eugenics in the post-1945 context, a time when Piza Jr. began to publicize evolutionism. While Piza Jr. stopped publicly defending eugenics in the latter half of the twentieth century, he maintained his racialized notions into the 1950s, corresponded with eugenicist groups in the 1960s, and supported a hierarchical interpretation of human evolution until the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In this article, Guilherme Prado Roitberg, Doctoral candidate at the Graduate Program in Education at Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Carlos, questions the idea that eugenic theses had fallen into disuse after 1945 and that Brazilian eugenics would have been \u201csoft\u201d and dissociated from scientific racism.<\/p>\n<p>Roitberg, G. P.. (2023).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/hcsm\/a\/9KSkxfKskRZ6ptXKPPK7Kqh\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Between scientific dissemination and late-stage eugenics: ruptures and continuations in the intellectual trajectory of Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., 1898-1988<\/a>. Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade-manguinhos, 30, e2023025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eugenics in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/ginis-thoughts-on-eugenics\/\">Gini\u2019s thoughts on eugenics<\/a>\u00a0Although Gini is best remembered today as a statistician and demographer, the paper argues that his interest in population statistics was entirely subordinated to his passion for eugenics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-in-mediterranean-europe-and-latin-america\/\">Eugenics in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America<\/a>\u00a0HCSM\u2019s new issue explores eugenic thinking and practice beyond the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-and-sterilization-in-the-united-states-1920-1950\/\">Eugenics and sterilization in the United States, 1920 \u2013 1950<\/a>\u00a0Alexandra Minna Stern and her team at the University of Michigan reviews medical records to investigate ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-and-sterilization-in-the-united-states\/\">Eugenics and sterilization in the United States<\/a>\u00a0In an interview to HCS-Manguinhos, Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan, talks about her initial findings related to ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/between-germanic-and-latin-eugenics-portugal-1930-1960\/\">Between Germanic and Latin eugenics: Portugal, 1930-1960<\/a>\u00a0Richard Mark Cleminson discusses the participation of Portuguese eugenicists in \u201cLatin eugenics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/brazilian-eugenics-and-its-international-connections\/\">Brazilian eugenics and its international connections<\/a>\u00a0Through an examination of Renato Kehl\u2019s and Edgard Roquette-Pinto\u2019s eugenic projects, the paper investigates their contact with the international thinking in the field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/latin-eugenics-in-a-transnational-context\/\">Latin eugenics in a transnational context<\/a>This thematic issue of HCS-Manguinhos revisits the concept of Latin eugenics in different historical circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-and-education-in-brazil\/\">Eugenics and education in Brazil<\/a>\u00a0Jerry D\u00e1vila, of the University of Illinois, analyzes the influence of eugenics in Brazilian public policies for education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/ou-latest-issue-is-available-online\/\">Our latest issue is available online<\/a>\u00a0It features topics such as knowledge of healing practices and plants, the circulation of medical knowledge in South America, mental hygiene in early childhood, the Gaceta M\u00e9dica de M\u00e9xico and scientific medicine, eugenics, and syphilis in Spain, among other themes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/la-eugenesia-en-el-ultimo-volumen-de-hcsm\/\">La eugenesia en el \u00faltimo volumen de HCSM<\/a>\u00a0La eugenesia, el \u201cmejoramiento de la raza\u201d y la b\u00fasqueda de la perfecci\u00f3n humana son temas de dos art\u00edculos publicados en el \u00faltimo volumen de HCS-Manguinhos (vol.30, 2023). Uno de ellos analiza los concursos de ni\u00f1o sano como una estrategia m\u00e9dica y el otro rescata un documento de principios de siglo XX ligado a la difusi\u00f3n del darwinismo social realizado por los primeros profesores de Educaci\u00f3n F\u00edsica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/lecturas-cruzadas-entre-deporte-y-eugenesia\/\">Lecturas cruzadas entre deporte y eugenesia<\/a>\u00a0Los Investigadores Alex Ovalle Letelier de la Universidad de La Serena (Chile) y Daniel Briones Molina del Centro de Estudios Hist\u00f3ricos de la Universidad Bernardo O\u2019Higgins (Chile), analizan el contenido de una valiosa fuente para el estudio hist\u00f3rico del Deporte y su relaci\u00f3n con la Eugenesia, la Pedagog\u00eda y la Medicina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/in-search-of-latin-americas-ideal-child-in-the-1930s\/\">In search of Latin America\u2019s \u201cideal child\u201d in the 1930s<\/a>\u00a0In the 1930s, the Colombian government implemented the Healthy Child Contest aimed to guarantee the future of the \u201crace\u201d and the nation.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"articleSectionTitle\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It shows how Brazilian eugenicists reconfigured their practices after the Second World War and refused the idea that Brazilian eugenics would have been \u201csoft\u201d and dissociated from scientific racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15929,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions\/15929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}