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

ISBN-13: 9780521423977 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 660 str.

Paul Weindling; Charles Rosenberg; Colin Jones

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Paul Weindling's book is very good indeed … [it] needs to be read by anyone embarking on a cultural history of the European world of 1900'. Norman Stone, The Guardian

Spis treści

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.