Full Description
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 eugenics, seroanthropology and anti-Semitism was in Germany, not least because proeminent German eugenicists and race scientists were Jewish or of Jewish origin.
Contents
Contents: LIST OF FIGURES I INTRODUCTION II THE EMERGENCE OF BLOOD SCIENCE "Contagious Blood" in German Fiction and Early Blood Science Origins of Serology The Volkisch Notion of "Blood Defilement" Seroanthropology Jewish Physicians and Blood Science Postwar Blood Science III SEROANTHROPOLOGY IN EARLY WEIMAR: BLOOD, RACE AND EUGENICS Verzar and Weszeczky: Seroanthropological Research in Hungary Surveying "Native Germans" Blood Type and Genetic Inferiority Volkisch Research IV ORGANIZING SEROANTHROPOLOGY: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR BLOOD GROUP RESEARCH Otto Reche and Racial Anthropology The German Institute for Blood Group Research V SEROANTHROPOLOGY AT ITS HEIGHT: DISTINGUISHING THOSE WITH "PURE BLOOD" Studies of "Native Germans" Biased Research VI THE JEW AS EXAMINER AND EXAMINED Manoiloff's "Serochemistry" and Jewish Blood Seroanthropologic Analysis of Jews Volkisch Propaganda Jews and Seroanthropology VII BLOOD AS METAPHOR AND SCIENCE IN THE NUREMBERG RACE LAWS Seroanthropology in 1933 Proponets of Seroanthropology Racial "Reform" under Nazism "Blood Defilement" Diverse Means of "Blood Defilement" Seroanthropologic Research in the Third Reich The German Institute for Blood Group Research VIII THE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE OF SEROANTHROPOLOGY DURING WORLD WAR II Seroanthropology and National Socialist Medicine Seroanthropologic Research Seroanthropology and Nazi Racial Ideology Clinical Serology IX CONCLUSION WORKS CITED
