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Beschreibung

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 d¿être 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 (1866¿1945) and his school in the USA on the model of drosophila. In Germany, Morgan¿s genetics, which concentrated on investigating the dissemination of genetic traits on the chromosomes and their morphological structure, was received with skepticism for two reasons.

Zusammenfassung

The first book to examine German biomedical science and its social applications in the country's most renowned institute for the human sciences in the inter-War years
Confronts the daunting question of how the life sciences under National Socialism could terminate in bestial medical crimes on "valueless" human beings
This case study offers a sophisticated analysis of the complex interface of science, politics and ethics -one that transcends the scope of this particular work

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Introduction.
1. A 'Purely Theoretical Institute for the study if the nature of man' The Founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics, 1920-1927
2. The Human of the Future Under the Scrutiny of Research
3. The 'Faustian Bargain'
4. In the Realm of Opportunity
5. Boundary Transgression
6. Index of Persons
7. Sources and Literature

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xiv 468 S.
ISBN-13:	9789048176786
ISBN-10:	9048176786
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schmuhl, Hans-Walter
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st edition 2008
Hersteller:	Springer Netherland Springer Netherlands
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Hans-Walter Schmuhl
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.11.2010
Gewicht:	0,727 kg