caa a22 4500 386398429 CHVBK 20180307112147.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007087400026182 doi S0007087400026182 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007087400026182 Weindling Paul Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, 45-47 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE, U.K. The ‘Sonderweg' of German Eugenics: Nationalism and Scientific Internationalism [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Weindling] The history of eugenics has become a classic arena for examining how the interplay of culture, social interests and social structures affects the advancement of science. At the same time eugenics demonstrates how in the first half of the twentieth century, the expectation arose that science could offer the solution of social problems; for biology intruded into many areas of social policy during the 1920s and 30s. Historians of science have been struck by the coincidence between the rise of genetics and eugenics after 1900. Genetics underpinned techniques of family reconstruction, which were deployed for the screening of population groups. Areas of social policy such as the prediction of potential criminals and other types of social deviancy relied on eugenic rationales. This poses intriguing problems concerning the extent to which genetic research was motivated by eugenic ideals, particularly in the field of human genetics. At the same time, it is important to recognize that eugenics was a heterogenous agglomeration of sciences: in addition to genetics, a prominent place was taken by anthropology, clinical medicine, statistics, and psychology. These diverse constituents were welded together by cultural and social movements peculiar to respective national contexts. Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1989 The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 321-333 0007-0874 22:3<321 1989 22 BJH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400026182 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400026182 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Weindling Paul Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, 45-47 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 321-333 0007-0874 22:3<321 1989 22 BJH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge