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Hormones, heredity, and race : spectacular failure in interwar Vienna / Cheryl A. Logan.

Title
Hormones, heredity, and race : spectacular failure in interwar Vienna / Cheryl A. Logan.
Author
Logan, Cheryl A.
Publication
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2013.

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Description
x, 245 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
  • Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
Subject
  • Steinach, Eugen
  • Tandler, Julius
  • Kammerer, Paul
  • Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926
  • Tandler, Julius, 1869-1936
  • Steinach, Eugen, 1861-1944
  • 1900-1999
  • Prejudice
  • Hormones
  • Anthropology, Physical
  • Prejudice > history
  • Hormones > history
  • History, 20th Century
  • Racial Groups > genetics
  • Adaptation, Biological
  • Heredity > genetics
  • Anthropology, Physical > history
  • Physical anthropology > Austria > Vienna > 20th century
  • Nature and nurture > Austria > Vienna > 20th century
  • Endocrinology > Austria > Vienna > 20th century
  • Heredity > Austria > Vienna > 20th century
  • Inheritance of acquired characters > 20th century
  • Rejuvenation > 20th century
  • Racism in anthropology > Austria > Vienna > 20th century
  • Rejuvenation > Austria > Vienna > 20th century
  • Inheritance of acquired characters > Austria > Vienna > 20th century
  • Austria
  • Vienna (Austria) > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Three Failed Scientists -- pt. I CONSTRUCTING HEREDITY -- 2.Rehabilitating Sexuality: Degeneration versus Development -- 3.Paul Kammerer and Flexible Heredity -- 4.Sex, Race, and Heat Rats: Somatic Induction and the Double Gonad -- 5."Productive" Eugenics: Harnessing the Energies of Development -- pt. II REFORM EUGENICS -- 6.Heredity, Glands, and Human Constitutions -- 7.Tandler's Eugenic Enigmas -- 8.Working Jewish in Vienna -- 9.Asymmetry, Failure, and Flexible Heredity.
ISBN
  • 9780813559698 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813559693 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813559704 (e-book)
  • 0813559707 (e-book)
LCCN
  • ^^2012023496
  • 40022060004
OCLC
  • 796354986
  • SCSB-9945022
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library