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

Schmuhl, Hans-Walter.

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927-1945 : crossing boundaries / Hans-Walter Schmuhl. - [Dordrecht] : Springer, c2008. - xiv, 467 p. ; 25 cm. - Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 259 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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, 1920-1927 -- "The human of the future under the scrutiny of research" : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics in the Weimar Republic, 1927-1933 -- The "Faustian bargain" : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics in the National Socialist era, 1933-1938/1942 -- In the realm of opportunity : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during World War II, 1938/42-1945.


Translated from the German.

9781402065996 (hbk.) 140206599X (hbk.) 9781402066009 (ebook) 1402066007 (ebook)

2007935799

GBA777584 bnb

014016309 Uk


Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik--History.


Eugenics--History--Germany--20th century.
Anthropology--History--Germany--20th century.
National socialism and medicine.

HQ755.5.G3 / S37 2008

363.92

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