In search of the perfect Romanian national specificity, racial degeneration, and social selection in modern Romania Marius Turda

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turda, Marius, author.

Series:

CEU Press studies in the history of medicine v. 15

CEU Press studies in the history of medicine volume XV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Romanian.

Romanians--Ethnic identity.

Romanians.

Eugenics--Romania.

Eugenics.

Antisemitism--History.

Racism against Romanies.

Romania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Budapest Central European University Press [2026]

System Details:

digital

Summary:

This book is the first comprehensive overview of debates about national character and race in modern Romania. It also argues that the Holocaust in Romania should be understood as the result not just of anti-Semitism but also of biopolitical nationalism. Finally, the book suggests that the eugenic ideal of the 'perfect' Romanian did not disappear at the end of the Second World War, but was embedded in the socialist definitions of the 'new man/woman' emerging under communism

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Ethnic Nationalism

3. The Degeneration of the Race

4. Biopolitics, Anthropology and Serology

5. Stigma and Eugenic Sterilisation

6. The Roma and Romanian Blood

7. About Heredity, but without Eugenics

8. Conclusions

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed June 2, 2026)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781042009336

9789048573622

9789048573615

1042009333

9048573629

9048573610

OCLC:

1592928638

Publisher Number:

CIPO000410343

Access Restriction:

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