Hormones, Heredity, and Race : : Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna /

Hormones, Heredity, and Race : : Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna / / Cheryl A. Logan.

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Early in the twentieth century, arguments about “nature” and “nurture” pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists—Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach—who sought to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Logan, Cheryl A.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About The Author

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