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Author:

Weiss, Sheila Faith.

Title:

The Nazi symbiosis : human genetics and politics in the Third Reich / Sheila Faith Weiss.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

383 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Eugenics--Germany--History--20th century.
Human genetics--Political aspects--Germany--20th century.
Human genetics--Government policy--Germany--20th century.
Human genetics--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany--20th century.
National socialism and science.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Eugenics--history.
Genetics--ethics.
Genetics--history.
History, 20th Century.
National Socialism.
Germany
Drittes Reich
Humangenetik
Eugenik
Deutschland
Geschichte 1933-1945

Other Authors:

UI Women in Science and Engineering donor IaU

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-370) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : an old legend and a new legacy -- Human heredity and eugenics make their international debut -- The devil's directors at Dahlem -- The Munich pact -- The politics of professional talk -- Politicized pedagogy -- The international human genetics community faces Nazi Germany -- Conclusion : the road not taken elsewhere : was there something unique about human heredity during the Third Reich?

ISBN:

0226891763 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226891767 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)587209534

LCCN:

2010005549

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)