Abstract

CARRIZOSA MOOG, Jaime. Eugenesia y discriminación en Colombia: el papel de la medicina y la psiquiatría en la política inmigratoria a principios del siglo XXEugenics and Discrimination in Colombia: the Role of Medicine and Psychiatry in Immigration Policy at the Beginning of the 20th Century. rev.colomb.psiquiatr. [online]. 2014, vol.43, n.1, pp.58-63. ISSN 0034-7450.

With the Theory of Evolution, eugenics had its beginnings during the last decades of the 19th century. Academics discussed the results obtained from their observations, and progressively had influence on the promulgation of laws and norms related to ethnic hygiene and improvement of race. Such principles were the fundamentals to order eugenic and discriminatory laws. Colombia was not outside that discussion and developed immigration laws congruent to that thinking during the first half of the 20th century.

Keywords : Eugenics; Discrimination; Law.

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