Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 259)
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“Schmuhl demonstrates how carefully and completely Fischer’s 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)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945
Book Subtitle: Crossing Boundaries
Authors: Hans-Walter Schmuhl
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6600-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6599-6Published: 13 February 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7678-6Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6600-9Published: 14 January 2008
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 468
Topics: History of Science, Human Genetics, Anthropology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Life Sciences, general