{"id":35174,"date":"2013-12-26T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35174"},"modified":"2013-12-26T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T13:47:53","slug":"science-in-support-of-racial-mixture-charles-augustin-vandermondes-enlightenment-program-for-improving-the-health-and-beauty-of-the-human-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35174","title":{"rendered":"Science in support of racial mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde&#8217;s Enlightenment program for improving the health and beauty of the human species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.endeavour.2013.11.001\" target=\"_blank\">Science in support of racial mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde&#8217;s Enlightenment program for improving the health and beauty of the human species<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/01609327\" target=\"_blank\">Endeavor<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable online 2013-12-25 (Corrected Proof)<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.endeavour.2013.11.001\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.endeavour.2013.11.001<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:C_pintocorreia@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Clara Pinto-Correia<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Instituto de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Cient\u00edfica Bento da Rocha Cabral, Lisboa, Portugal<br \/>\nCentro de Estudos de Hist\u00f3ria e Filosofia das Ci\u00eancias, \u00c9vora, Portugal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Monteiro<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartamento de Ci\u00eancias Sociais Aplicadas<br \/>\n<em>Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1756, while he was regent of the Facult\u00e9 de M\u00e9decine in Paris, <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles-Augustin_Vandermonde\" target=\"_self\">Charles-Augustin Vandermonde<\/a> published his <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Vandermonde1756Bnf31532956k\" target=\"_blank\">Essai sur la Mani\u00e8re de Perfectionner l\u2019Esp\u00e8ce Humaine<\/a><\/em>. This treatise was situated within the French-led medical movement of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meliorism\" target=\"_blank\">meliorism<\/a>, meant to increase public health by boosting the medical arrangement of marriages from all strata of society. What made Vandermonde different from his colleagues is that he was not just looking for a way to improve the health of society: he was also proposing a series of measures meant to increase the beauty of humankind. And, for the first time in the history of European medicine, he advocated mixed-race couplings as a means to obtain the best results. This latter development is so unexpected in the global setting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Enlightenment\" target=\"_blank\">Enlightenment<\/a> that we could arguably hail Vandermonde as the founding father of what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michel_Foucault\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Foucault<\/a> later called \u2018<em><a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biopolitique\" target=\"_blank\">biopolitique<\/a><\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0160932713000860\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science in support of racial mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde&#8217;s Enlightenment program for improving the health and beauty of the human species Endeavor Available online 2013-12-25 (Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016\/j.endeavour.2013.11.001 Clara Pinto-Correia Instituto de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Cient\u00edfica Bento da Rocha Cabral, Lisboa, Portugal Centro de Estudos de Hist\u00f3ria e Filosofia das Ci\u00eancias, \u00c9vora, Portugal Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Monteiro Departamento [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,2039,459,8],"tags":[16635,16633,16634,2065,96,16632],"class_list":["post-35174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-charles-augustin-vandermonde","tag-clara-pinto-correia","tag-endeavor","tag-eugenics","tag-france","tag-joao-lourenco-monteiro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}