Eugenesia y aborto en México (1920-1940)

Abstract

Eugenesia y aborto en México (1920-1940)

"A Tacit Pact with the State": Constrained Choice and the Politics of Abortion in 1930s Mexico

“…11 While Beatríz Urías Horcasitas's masterful article explores abortion in 1930s Mexico through the lens of eugenics, and while the politics of reproduction and eugenics have been examined by other scholars, we still have little knowledge of abortive practices and on-the-ground student debates. 12 Although medical students' writings provide insight into their own ideologies, anxieties, and priorities, they also marginalize and silence women's voices. Nonetheless, a close reading shows that they listened to women's affective pleas for state or social subsistence and that they also recognized women's need for housing, food, education, and fertility control.…”

Flattening and Unpacking Human Genetic Variation in Mexico, Postwar to Present

“…Thus, for instance, cultural anthropology became applied anthropology in the hands of the Mexican governments, which encouraged knowledge of the linguistic genealogy and history of Mexico's diverse ethnic groups. Simultaneously, new methods and technologies from physical anthropology and medicine were implemented to account for the variety of Mexican peoples (Urías Horcasitas 2007; Suárez-Díaz 2014b).…”

“…These multiple disciplinary engagements with indigenous, but also unruly poor mestizo populations of the urban centers, reached a peak between the mid-1940s and the early 1950s, with the creation of different public health care institutions, and the Instituto Nacional Indigenista , whose main explicit goals remained the integration of marginal groups to the modernizing nation, by means of education and health services. These developments have been the subject of detailed historical research, showing the energetic commitment of the period's governments, in a relatively favorable context of economic growth (Urías Horcasitas 2007; Stern 2009; Agostini 2013; García-Murcia 2013; Suárez-Díaz and Barahona 2013; Vargas-Domínguez 2015).…”

“…Studies of Mexican populations have, almost invariably, presupposed the dichotomous categorization that classified Mexicans as either indigenous (native) or mestizo (product of the mixture between native groups and Spanish conquistadores ) as a methodological orientation (López-Beltrán and García-Deister 2013). This dichotomous presupposition is deeply embedded in nation-building narratives of mestizaje; moreover, throughout the twentieth century this representation of the Mexican population became part of public policies regarding health care, demographic management, and intervention (Urías Horcasitas 2007; Suárez-Díaz and Barahona 2013; Vargas-Domínguez 2015).…”

Racial degeneration, mental hygiene, and the beginning of Peruvian psychiatry, 1922–1934.

“…On Argentina, see Miranda and Vallejo (2005, 2012). About Mexico, see Suárez (2005), Stern (1999, 2011), Saade Granados (2004), and Urías Horcasitas (2007).…”