CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
In Search of "Aryan Blood": Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany
1st Edition
By Rachel E. Boaz
March 15, 2012
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 ...
Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy
1st Edition
By Francesco Cassata
May 15, 2011
Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. Discusses several fundamental ...
Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Promitzer, Marius Turda, Sevasti Trubeta
January 20, 2011
This volume is a collection of chapters that deal with issues of health, hygiene and eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945, specifically, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. Its major concern is to examine the transfer of medical ideas to society via local, national and ...
Demography and Nation: Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria
1st Edition
By Svetla Baloutzova
January 10, 2011
The monograph investigates the origins of state policy toward population and the family in Bulgaria. Reconstructs the evolution of state legislation in the field of social policy toward the family between the two World Wars, colored by concerns about the national good and demographic considerations...