Hans Betzhold Hess was a Chilean doctor who advocated eugenics[1] in his 1939 book Eugenesia (Eugenics). He was part of the Second Peruvian Conference on Eugenics held in Peru in 1943.[2] He proposed a National Eugenics Department be established in Chile.[3]
He advocated castration as a curative for sexual offenders and sought to eliminate vice and disease by creating a Chilean superman (superhombre) via eugenic selection.[4] He advocated the use of sterilization to achieve "negative eugenics".[5]
His book Eugenesia was published by Zig-Zag.[6]
References
edit- ^ Casique, Pedro López. "Griegos, latinos y germanos en algunos escritos racistas y eugénicos chilenos de la primera mitad del siglo XX". Portal de Revistas.
- ^ Segunda Jornada Peruana de Eugenesia: Lima, 25 a 29 de Mayo de 1943. Impr. Lux. 1943.
- ^ Sánchez-Delgado, Marcelo; Cárcamo-Gebhardt, Nicolás (August 22, 2018). "Hans Betzhold and the Chilean "superman:" a tale of disillusion, 1938-1943". Historia, Ciencias, Saude--Manguinhos. 25 (suppl 1): 51–68. doi:10.1590/S0104-59702018000300004. PMID 30133582. S2CID 240342118.
- ^ The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile. University of Pittsburgh Press. 25 January 2022. ISBN 9780822988090.
- ^ Valparaíso, la memoria dispersa: Crónicas históricas. RIL Editores. 2013. ISBN 9789560100269.
- ^ Group, PMB. "Eugenesia". pmb.parlamento.gub.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-23.
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