1st Edition
In Search of "Aryan Blood" Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany
By Rachel E. Boaz
Copyright 2012
256 Pages
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Central European University Press
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 developments in anthropology and eugenics in the 1920s and 1930s. Boaz portrays how the personal motivations... Read more
list of figures, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, INTRODUCTION, chapter I: THE EMERGE NCE OF BLOOD SCIENCE, chapter II: seroanthropology in THE early 1920s: BLOOD, RACE, AND EUGENICS, chapter III: ORG ANIZING seroanthropology: the ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN institute FOR BLOOD GROUP RE SEARCH, 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
Biography
Rachel E. Boaz received her PhD from Kent State University. She is adjunct professor in the Department of History at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
