Hormones, heredity, and race : spectacular failure in interwar Vienna / Cheryl A. Logan.
- Logan, Cheryl A.
- Date:
- [2013]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Physical description
x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Three Failed Scientists -- Part I CONSTRUCTING HEREDITY -- 2. Rehabilitating Sexuality: Degeneration versus Development -- 3. Paul Kammerer and Flexible Heredity -- 4. Sex, Race, and Heat Rats: Somatic Induction and the Double Gonad -- 5."Productive" Eugenics: Harnessing the Energies of Development -- Part II REFORM EUGENICS -- 6. Heredity, Glands, and Human Constitutions -- 7. Tandler's Eugenic Enigmas -- 8. Working Jewish in Vienna -- 9. Asymmetry, Failure, and Flexible Heredity.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Nature and nurtureAustriaVienna20th century
- EndocrinologyAustriaVienna20th century
- Inheritance of acquired characters20th century
- Rejuvenation20th century
- Racism in anthropologyAustriaVienna20th century
- Anthropology, Physicalhistory
- Hereditygenetics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Racial Groupsgenetics
- Hormoneshistory
- Prejudicehistory
- 20th century
- Vienna (Austria)History20th century
- Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926.
- Tandler, Julius, 1869-1936.
- Steinach, Eugen, 1861-1944.
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineSP.385.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780813559698
- 0813559693
- 9780813559704
- 0813559707