Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and - Nazism, 1870-1945

Informationen zum Autor Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University Klappentext Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around v lkisch racial ideologies! overlooking the effects of racial ideas on biology and health. Based on a wealth of hitherto neglected archival sources! this book analyses the origins! social composition and impact of eugenics in the context of the social and political tension of an industrialising empire. Zusammenfassung Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around völkisch racial ideologies, overlooking the effects of racial ideas on biology and health. Based on a wealth of hitherto neglected archival sources, this book analyses the origins, social composition and impact of eugenics in the context of the social and political tension of an industrialising empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: science and social cohesion; 1. Social Darwinism; 2. Between utopianism and racial hygiene; 3. From hygiene to family welfare; 4. Struggle for survival, the 1914-1918 war; 5. Revolution and racial reconstruction; 6. Weimar eugenics; 7. The sick bed of democracy, 1929-32; 8. Nazi racial hygiene; 9. Eugenics and German politics.

Product details

• Authors: Weindling Paul, Paul Weindling
• Assisted by: Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.1993
• EAN: 9780521423977
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42397-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book