The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945 (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
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468
Utgivningsdatum
2008-02-01
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2008 ed.
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
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XIV, 468 p.
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155 x 231 x 33 mm
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863 g
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1
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9781402065996

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945

Crossing Boundaries

av Hans-Walter Schmuhl
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2008-02-01
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From its founding in 1927 until its dissolution in 1945, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics (KWI-A) in Berlin-Dahlem transgressed many a boundary; indeed, the transgression of boundaries was in a sense its raison dtre from the outset. Initially this applied to the boundaries within the disciplinary canon of the human sciences. Even from its basic conception, the institute, centered around the person of its founding director Eugen Fischer (1874 1967), was to unify anthropology, genetics, and eugenics under one roof. In ke- ing with the understanding predominant in Germany between the wars, anthropology went beyond the scope of the framework of the ascendant race theory to cover not only physical anthropology, including paleoanthropology, but also elements of what we today would call cultural and social anthropology. Thus, this anthropology extended far into the fields of archeology, paleontology, prehistory and early h- tory, history and sociology, and especially into ethnology and folklore. Human genetics, in turn, was more than the attempt to apply to humans the genetics dev- oped by Thomas Hunt Morgan (18661945) and his school in the USA on the model of drosophila. In Germany, Morgans genetics, which concentrated on investigating the dissemination of genetic traits on the chromosomes and their morphological structure, was received with skepticism for two reasons.
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From the reviews: Schmuhl demonstrates how carefully and completely Fischers institute came to be integrated into the Nazi racial hygiene policies . Schmuhl and other historians have scrutinized carefully the basic research carried out at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology. this was both high-quality work by the standards of the day, and well-integrated into the racial hygiene policies of the regime. make significant contributions to a more subtle and deeper understanding of how science and Nazism interacted. (Mark Walker, Metascience, Vol. 19, 2010)

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A Purely Theoretical Institute for the Study of the Nature of Man: The Founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 19201927.- The Human of the Future Under the Scrutiny of Research: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in the Weimar Republic, 19271933.- The Faustian Bargain: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in the National Socialist Era, 19331938/1942.- In the Realm of Opportunity: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics during World War II, 1938/421945.- Boundary Transgressions.

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