In Search of "Aryan Blood" : : Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany / / Rachel E. Boaz.

Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how the discovery of blood groups in around 1900 galvanised not only old mythologies of blood and origin but also new developmen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER I. THE EMERGENCE OF BLOOD SCIENCE
  • CHAPTER II. Seroanthropology in the Early 1920s: BLOOD, RACE, AND EUGENICS
  • CHAPTER III. ORGANIZING Seroanthropology: The ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR BLOOD GROUP RESEARCH
  • CHAPTER IV. Seroanthropology at its Height: Distinguishing those with "Pure blood"
  • CHAPTER V. The Jew as Examiner and Examined
  • CHAPTER VI. BLOOD as Metaphor and Science in the Nuremberg Race Laws
  • CHAPTER VII. The Pedagogy and Practice of Seroanthropology During World War II
  • Conclusion
  • Index of Names