A Human Garden

French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-543-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

Well into the 1980s, Strasbourg, France, was the site of a curious and little-noted experiment: Ungemach, a garden city dating back to the high days of eugenic experimentation that offered luxury living to couples who were deemed biologically fit and committed to contractual childbearing targets. Supported by public authorities, Ungemach aimed to accelerate human evolution by increasing procreation among eugenically selected parents. In this fascinating history, Paul-André Rosental gives an account of Ungemach’s origins and its perplexing longevity. He casts a troubling light on the influence that eugenics continues to exert—even decades after being discredited as a pseudoscience—in realms as diverse as developmental psychology, postwar policymaking, and liberal-democratic ideals of personal fulfilment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosental, Paul-André

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Introduction

Foreword

Theodore M. Porter

PART I: THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF A HUMAN GARDEN (1880S–1980S)

Chapter 1. The Acceptance of a Eugenic Experimentation

Chapter 2. The Stone Poem of the Alsatian Ibsen

Chapter 3. Guinea Pigs or Citizens? From the Reign of the “Diktator” to the Public Policy (1923–1984)

PART II: EUGENICS, BIOPOLITICS, AND WELFARE IN A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE (1914–1968)

Chapter 4. From Micro- to Macro-History: Ungemach Gardens and the Survival of Eugenics in France after 1945

Chapter 5. Stamping out Racism and Reforming Eugenics: a Transatlantic History of Qualitative Demography

Chapter 6. Qualitative Demography, Reform Eugenics, and Social Policies in 1950s France

PART III: EUGENICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: A NEGLECTED LEGACY

Chapter 7. Eugenics as a Moral Theory (1): The Theory of Human Capital

Chapter 8. Eugenics as a Moral Theory (2): At the Sources of “Personal Development”

Conclusion

Epilogue

Archival Sources

Bibliography

Appendix: Works by Abel Ruffenach, pseudonym of Alfred Dachert

Über Autor(innen)

Rosental, Paul-André
Paul-André Rosental is a professor at Sciences Po in Paris. His research focuses on the field dubbed “biopolitics” by Michel Foucault, where the studies of society, demographics, and health intersect.