Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English - Literature, Works, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: During the nineteenth century, there was a tremendous development of new sciences. Susanne Scholz argues that on the one side these new disciplines transformed human beings into objects of investigation and they tried to determine the boundaries of the human as well as to establish boundaries between culture and pathology. On the other side this new path of socio-political and sociobiological thinking developed into a fatal continuum,...