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In Search of the "Aryan Blood"
Rachel E. Boaz
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Hardcover. Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 of blood scientists influenced their professional research, ultimately demonstrating how conceptually indeterminate and politically volatile the science of race was under the Nazi regime. Contrary to sustained efforts, the search for the "Aryan" blood did not materialize into the racial utopia that the Nazi officials had dreamed. Moreover, the monograph convincingly demonstrates how ambiguous the relationship between ... Read more
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 of blood scientists influenced their professional research, ultimately demonstrating how conceptually indeterminate and politically volatile the science of race was under the Nazi regime. Contrary to sustained efforts, the search for the "Aryan" blood did not materialize into the racial utopia that the Nazi officials had dreamed. Moreover, the monograph convincingly demonstrates how ambiguous the relationship between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Central European University Press Hungary
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789639776500
SKU
V9789639776500
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About Rachel E. Boaz
Boaz is adjunct professor in the Department of History at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio
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