Baltic eugenics : bio-politics, race and nation in interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940 / edited by Björn M. Felder & Paul J. Weindling.

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.

333 pages ; 24 cm.

The majority of papers included in this volume were presetned at the workshop Eugenics, Race and Psychiatry in the Baltic States: a Trans-National Perspective, held at the Goethe Institute Riga between 7 and 8 May 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

Eugenics, sterilisation and the racial state : the Baltic States and Russia and the global eugenics movement / Björn M. Felder -- Race, eugenics and national identity in the Eastern Baltic : from racial surveys to racial states / Paul J. Weindling -- The application of eugenics in Estonia 1918-1940 / Ken Kalling -- Racial identity and physical anthropology in Estonia 1800-1945 / Ken Kalling and Leiu Heapost -- "God forgives, but nature never will" : racial identity, racial anthropology, and eugenics in Latvia 1918-1940 / Björn M. Felder -- Latvian psychiatry and medical legislation of the 1930s and the German sterilisation law / Vladimirs Kuznecovs -- "Over-Latvianization in heaven" : attitude towards contraception and abortion in Latvia 1918-1940 / Ineta Lipša -- Eugenics against state and church : Juozas Blažys (1890-1939), eugenics, abortion and psychiatry in interwar Lithuania 1918-1940 / Björn M. Felder and Arūnas Germanivičius -- World War One and national characterology in East-Central Europe / Maciej Górny -- Soviet eugenics for national minorities : eradication of syphilis in Buriat-Mongolia as an element of social modernisation of a frontier region 1923-1928 / Vsevolod Bashkuev -- Sterilisations in the Swedish welfare state : a gender issue? / Maija Runcis -- Eugenic concerns, scientific practices : international relations and national adaptations in the extablishment of psychiatric genetics in German, Britaitn, the USA, and Scandinavia 1910-1960 / Volker Roelcke.