Health, race, and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945

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Health, race, and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945

Paul Weindling

(Cambridge history of medicine / editors, Charles Webster and Charles Rosenberg)

Cambridge University Press, 1993, c1989

1st pbk. ed

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First published in 1989

Bibliography: p. [583]-609

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around voelkisch 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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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