ideological conflict: between catholic, familist and natalist eugenics, and secular, birth control-oriented eugenics.political conflict: between mainline, neo-fascist and racist eugenics (SIGE) and reform/new anti-fascist and anti-racist eugenics.institutional and academic conflict: between SIGE’s statisticians-demographers and the geneticists, who formed a new association (AGI) in 1953 and between the latter and physicians, who in their turn formed the Italian Society of Medical Genetics ( Società italiana di genetica medica) in 1951.These various conflictual dynamics could be summarized as follows: 7ĥIn this climate of rapid development of Italian genetics, eugenics went through a sort of no-man’s-land, particularly in the 1950s, in which tensions and oppositions were articulated on different levels. 1948 was also the year in which two professorships of genetics were created, won by Claudio Barigozzi in Milan, 6 and by Adriano Buzzati-Traverso in Pavia. 5 Finally, in July 1947, at the Botanical Institute of the University of Pisa, a Study Center for Plant Cytogenetics was inaugurated, presided over by Alberto Chiarugi, while in December 1948 a Study Center for Biophysics began activities, at the Institute of Hydrobiology “Marco De Marchi,” in Verbania-Pallanza. In 193 (.)ĤA few days later, on 25 March, a convention between CNR and the University of Pavia christened the birth of a Study Center for Genetics at the University Institute of Zoology and Genetics, directed by Carlo Jucci. 7 Adriano Buzzati-Traverso was born in Milan, the younger brother of the writer Dino Buzzati.6 Student of Cesare Artom in Pavia, Claudio Barigozzi (1909–1996) from the start of the thirties stu (.).5 Carlo Jucci (1897–1962) graduated in natural sciences in Rome in 1920, spending time in Giovan Bat (.).
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