Abstract
This article explores the resonances of eugenics within the thought of the Nobel Prize winner Egas Moniz with a particular focus on his often republished volume A Vida Sexual. By providing an account that is both sensitive to national realities and international scientific influences, this paper argues that, while eugenics was not a major interest for Egas, the language of eugenics was present in his work and allowed for connections between the sexual sciences, neo-Malthusianism and medical hygiene. Although the analysis of one individual is no substitute for an extensive history of eugenics in any one country, the reception of eugenics in key figures of Portuguese science and medicine provides a useful barometer by which to judge the dissemination of eugenics in this national space.
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