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Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948

Autor Amir Teicher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 feb 2020
Who was the scientific progenitor of eugenic thought? Amir Teicher challenges the preoccupation with Darwin's eugenic legacy by uncovering the extent to which Gregor Mendel's theory of heredity became crucial in the formation - and radicalization - of eugenic ideas. Through a compelling analysis of the entrenchment of genetic thinking in the social and political policies in Germany between 1900 and 1948, Teicher exposes how Mendelian heredity became saturated with cultural meaning, fed racial anxieties, reshaped the ideal of the purification of the German national body and ultimately defined eugenic programs. Drawing on scientific manuscripts and memoirs, bureaucratic correspondence, court records, school notebooks and Hitler's table talk as well as popular plays and films, Social Mendelism presents a new paradigm for understanding links between genetics and racism, and between biological and social thought.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108499491
ISBN-10: 110849949X
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 24 b/w illus. 1 table
Dimensiuni: 160 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. Mendel's laws and their application to humans, 1865–1913; 2. Mendelism maturing: from experimental to interpretative framework, 1913–1933; 3. Mendelism, purity and national renewal; 4. Annihilating defective genes: Mendelian consciousness and the sterilization campaign; 5. Mendelizing racial antisemitism; Epilogue: social Mendelism beyond the Nazis.

Recenzii

'Amir Teicher's wide-ranging and provocative history of Mendelism in the German-speaking world will bust the myth that it was Darwinian selectionism alone that provided scientific justifications for right-wing ideologies of racial purification.' Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Cambridge
'Amir Teicher's lucid study demonstrates that, similar to the way in which Darwin's work gave rise to Social Darwinism, the research method based on Gregor Mendel's experiments became transformed into a general interpretive framework - which Teicher calls 'Social Mendelism' - that exerted a powerful influence on the German biosciences in the first half of the twentieth century.' Richard F. Wetzell, German Historical Institute Washington
'Revelatory.' Gregory Radick, Times Literary Supplement
'This ambitious and thoroughly researched book seeks to achieve nothing less than a major rethink of the intellectual background to Nazism.' Dan Stone, German Studies Review

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Descriere

Will revolutionize reader's understanding of the principles of modern genetics, Nazi racial policies and the relationship between them.