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Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
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The New Eugenics: Black Hyper-Incarceration and Human Abatement
Social Sciences, 2016 In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement exercised considerable influence over domestic US public policy. Positive eugenics encouraged the reproduction of “fit” human specimens while negative eugenics attempted to reduce the reproduction of “
James C. Oleson
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The roles and clinical applications of interleukins in endometrial carcinoma
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 As a common malignant tumor of the female reproductive system, endometrial carcinoma (EC) seriously endangers women’s health with an increasing incidence. The oncogenesis and progression of cancer are closely linked with immune microenvironment, of which
Yuqin Zang +14 more
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2023 Eugenics had popular appeal and expressions in early 20th-century Denmark. This article tells two stories of what eugenics looked like ‘in the hands’ of bourgeois Danish women as they promoted ‘racial hygiene’ through cultural production.
Victoria E. Pihl Sørensen
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The trajectories of eugenics [PDF]
, 2018 Introduzione al numero monografico di Contemporanea intitolato "Present days-eugenics"
Betta, E.
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Halting the 'sad degenerationist parade': medical concerns about heredity and racial degeneracy in New Zealand psychiatry, 1853-99. [PDF]
, 2012 Historians have focused on early twentieth-century positive eugenics in New Zealand. In this article, I argue that the response came from a tradition of concern about heredity and white racial degeneracy, which extended beyond the British Empire.
Dawson, Mark
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Nietzsche, Evolution and Eugenics: A Consideration of a Debate in China
Cuestiones de FilosofíaNietzsche, evolution and eugenics have been the subject of intense debate in academic circles for some time. This article attempts to clarify a debate that has taken place in China and, on this basis, to reconsider the following question: Should ...
Han Wangwei (韩王韦)
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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