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Plainview, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1st edition
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0879695315 / 9780879695316
Description
In the 1920s and 1930s, advocates for eugenics claimed that genes influenced human behaviour, but with no valid evidence. In Germany the Nazis adopted their ideas to justify violent anti-semitism.
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CONTENTS:
I: Identification, proscription, and extermination
A German chronicle of the identification, proscription, and extermination of those who were
different
From the ostracism of the Jews to the sterilization of mental patients
From the killing of mental patients to the killing of Jews and Gypsies
THe use of those who had been deprived of their rights as material for anthropological and
psychiatric research
On the role and self-image of som anthropologists
Nine questions
II: Conversations
Miss Gertrud Fischer, the daughter of Professor Eugen Fischer
Professor Widukind Lenz, the son of Professor Fritz Lenz
Dr. Helmut von Verschuer, the son of Professor Otmar von Verschuer
Professor Edith Zerbin-Rubin, the daughter of Professor Ernst Rudin
Mrs. Susanne Ludicke, Professor Fischer's medical technician and Dr. Lore von Kries
Professor Wolfgang Abel
Dr. Engelhard Buhler
Dr. Adolf Wurth
Professor Hans Grebe
Mrs. Irmgard Haase, Professor Otmar von Verschuer's medical technician
Professor Georg Melchers
Professor Werner-Joachim Eicke
Professor Hans-Joachim Rauch
III. Five days in Berlin, James D. Watson
The specter of Kakogenics, Benno Muller-Hill.
I: Identification, proscription, and extermination
A German chronicle of the identification, proscription, and extermination of those who were
different
From the ostracism of the Jews to the sterilization of mental patients
From the killing of mental patients to the killing of Jews and Gypsies
THe use of those who had been deprived of their rights as material for anthropological and
psychiatric research
On the role and self-image of som anthropologists
Nine questions
II: Conversations
Miss Gertrud Fischer, the daughter of Professor Eugen Fischer
Professor Widukind Lenz, the son of Professor Fritz Lenz
Dr. Helmut von Verschuer, the son of Professor Otmar von Verschuer
Professor Edith Zerbin-Rubin, the daughter of Professor Ernst Rudin
Mrs. Susanne Ludicke, Professor Fischer's medical technician and Dr. Lore von Kries
Professor Wolfgang Abel
Dr. Engelhard Buhler
Dr. Adolf Wurth
Professor Hans Grebe
Mrs. Irmgard Haase, Professor Otmar von Verschuer's medical technician
Professor Georg Melchers
Professor Werner-Joachim Eicke
Professor Hans-Joachim Rauch
III. Five days in Berlin, James D. Watson
The specter of Kakogenics, Benno Muller-Hill.