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Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870 1945 : Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine - Paul Weindling

Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870 1945

By: Paul Weindling, Weindling Paul, Charles Rosenberg (Editor)

Paperback | 20 September 1993

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Based on a wealth of hitherto neglected archival sources, this study analyzes the origins, social composition and impact of eugenics in the context of the social and political tension of the rapidly industrializing Nazi empire. Until recently, historians of German racism have limited their analysis of the origins of the Holocaust to a handful of volkisch racial ideologies, overlooking the effects of racial ideas on biology, on the rapidly expanding medical profession and on public health services. Between 1870 and 1945, German biology and medicine assumed important social aims of national reconstruction. Weindling charts the rapid increase in the numbers of scientifically educated doctors who sought to solve the nation's social ills (while establishing new career paths) in the fight against a declining birth rate and such diseases as VD, TB and alcoholism, which were stigmatized as racial poisons. The effects of issues of health and welfare on the changing relationship between the bourgeoisie and the state, and the emergence of the welfare state and the centrality of eugenics to concepts of welfare are all fully discussed. Indeed, these issues are used to develop an analysis of a shift from liberalism to corporatism, which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of German social and political history. Historians of medicine and social and political historians of modern Germany will be interested in this book.
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'Weindling's book is a major contribution to an important subject. It brings a mass of fascinating detail to bear on the medical origins of Nazi exterminism. And will be required reading for all serious students of modern German history.' Times Higher Education Supplement '... describes in horrifying detail how the German doctors' fear of an imagined national deterioration of one kind led them into complicity with a government whose degeneracy of another kind was all too real.' London Review of Books 'Paul Weindling's book is very good indeed ... [it] needs to be read by anyone embarking on a cultural history of the European world of 1900'. Norman Stone, The Guardian

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Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial Issues & ProcessesSocial Discrimination & InequalityHistoryRegional & National HistoryEuropean HistoryMedicineMedicine in GeneralPublic Health & Preventive MedicineHistory of MedicineHealth Systems & Services

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