%0 Journal Article %T Eugenesia, salud mental y tipolog¨ªa psicol¨®gica del mexicano %A Su¨¢rez y L¨®pez-Guazo %A Laura %J Asclepio : Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia %D 2002 %I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas %X An account is made of the fundamental principles of legal medicine proposed by the english psichyatrist Henry Maudsley, of the criminal anthropology postulated by the italian Cesare Lombroso and of the anthropologyc school, which were used as cientificity frames to detect, explain and solve mental health related phenomenons by eminent psichyatrist, criminologists and legal doctors of medicine from M¨¦xico, with important influence on the field of public health, between the decades 1930 and 1960. In that project had to do also the evolutionist thesis and the arguments derived from the eugenesic current (racial betterment advocationist), which led to consider such measures as sterilization and even the elimination of individuals considered to be carries of hereditary characters producing patterns of antisocial behavoir, such as wadness and nervious system fragility, then vinculated to criminality, pauperization and prostitution. On the implementation of mental health programs and it¡¯s legal aspects, the participation of the following professional institutions is fundamental: Academia Nacional de Medicina de M¨¦xico, Sociedad Mexicana de Puericultura, Sociedad Eug¨¦nica Mexicana para el Mejoramiento de la Raza, Sociedad Mexicana de Neurolog¨ªa y y Psiquiatr¨ªa and the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias Penales. A review is made of diverse attemps to stablish the psychological typology of mexicans, based on bio-typological and psychosomatic data from evolutionism and eugenics thesis, which even led to the organization of a criminal biology service, to detect individuals considered to be carries o certain hereditary characters which were thought to be the source of anti-social qualified conducts, also vinculated whith diverse mental pathologies such as criminality. Se rese an diversos intentos por establecer la tipolog¨ªa psicol¨®gica del mexicano, con apoyo en datos biotipol¨®gicos y psicosom¨¢ticos, del evolucionismo y tesis relativas a la doctrina eugen¨¦sica, que condujeron incluso a impulsar un servicio de biolog¨ªa criminal para detectar los individuos considerados portadores de caracteres hereditarios generadores de conductas calificadas como antisociales, como la locura y la fragilidad del sistema nervioso, que se vincularon con diversas patolog¨ªas mentales como la criminalidad. Se se alan elementos derivados de la medicina legal propuestos por el psiquiatra ingl¨¦s Henry Maudsley, de la antropolog¨ªa criminal italiana de Cesare Lombroso y de la escuela antropom¨¦trica francesa, que se emplearon como marcos de cientificidad para detectar, explicar y resolver los fen¨®me %K eugenics %K public health %K psychology %K Mexico %K eugenesia %K salud mental %K psicolog¨ªa %K M¨¦xico %U http://asclepio.revistas.csic.es/index.php/asclepio/article/view/139/136