The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927-1945
Subtitle: crossing boundaries
By: Hans-Walter Schmuhl.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 259
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Dordrecht]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9781402065996; 9781402066009
Subjects: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik -- History.; Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; National socialism and medicine.
Work titles: Grenzüberschreitungen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: A "purely theoretical institute for the study of the nature of man" : the founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1920-1927; title: "The human of the future under the scrutiny of research" : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics in the Weimar Republic, 1927-1933; title: The "Faustian bargain" : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics in the National Socialist era, 1933-1938/1942; title: In the realm of opportunity : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during World War II, 1938/42-1945.