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Julius Wagner-Jauregg: pyrotherapy, simultanmethode, and 'racial hygiene'. [PDF]

J R Soc Med, 2012
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Nobel Laureate and one of the leading psychiatrists of his time, was born on 7 March 1857, in Wels, Austria. Colleagues described him as a brilliant but extremely difficult person – a man able to think ‘outside the box’ but who also claimed that ‘common principles’ did not apply to him – and who lived by the motto ‘a man with ...
Gartlehner G, Stepper K.
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Constitutional Therapy and Clinical Racial Hygiene in Weimar and Nazi Germany. [PDF]

J Hist Med Allied Sci, 2016
The paper examines the history of constitutional therapy in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Focusing on Walther Jaensch's "Institute for Constitutional Research" at the Charité in Berlin, it shows how an entrepreneurial scientist successfully negotiated the changing social and political landscape of two very different political regimes and mobilized ...
Hau M.
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Colour‐blind racial attitudes in entry‐level dental hygiene students in Virginia

International Journal of Dental Hygiene, 2023
AbstractObjectiveSubscribing to colour‐blind racial attitudes may contribute to inequities in the delivery of oral care and affect treatment of diverse patients. The purpose of this study was to survey all entry‐level dental hygiene students in one state to determine colour‐blind racial attitudes.MethodsAfter IRB approval, a convenience sample of 220 ...
Emily A Ludwig, Jessica R Suedbeck
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Maternal and demographic factors influencing oral Candida albicans in infants: A stratified analysis using a novel partial linear semiparametric mixed-effects model. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Candida albicans, a pathogenic fungus implicated in early childhood caries (ECC), plays a crucial role in oral health. While its colonization usually begins at birth, the extent of maternal involvement in yeast transmission to their offspring ...
Sami Leon, Nora Alomeir, Jin Xiao, Tong Tong Wu   +3 more
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Can Squid Game Series Be Watched Through Social Darwinism? A Semiotic Review

Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
Social events are reflected as a string of signs in the language of the productions in question by forming thesubjects of cinema and TV productions. The language of expression in television creates a dream world,and the message is tried to be placed in ...
Hasan Tutar
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“In Women’s Hands”

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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Les psychiatres brésiliens et la race, entre eugénisme et hygiénisme (1920-1937)

Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2022
In the Republic founded in 1889, Brazilian medicine produced mainly a science of man that was mobilized by public action and, beyond, in the elites’ political reflection on the future of the country.
Aurélia Michel
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The Relation between Dirt Discourse and Biopolitics in Malamud’s Stories [PDF]

‫مطالعات زبان و ترجمه, 2023
This article focuses on notions of ‘dirt’ and diaspora to discuss their relation with biopolitical discourse in Malamud’s The Jewbird and The Mourners from the perspective of left thinkers. Deploying Douglas’s and Bauman’s views, the writer discusses how
Zahra Taheri
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Hate Speech and Racialised Discrimination of the Norwegian Sámi: Legal Responses and Responsibility

Oslo Law Review, 2021
This article discusses the racialised discrimination of the Sámi people and how the Norwegian judiciary deals with it. It draws historical lines to social Darwinism as practised in Norway, where comparisons of the Sámi’s physical characteristics to the ...
Carola Lingaas
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After Pettenkofer. Munich’s Institute of Hygiene and the long shadow of National Socialism, 1894–1974

International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2020
The year 2019 marked the 140th anniversary of the inauguration of the first Institute of Hygiene, which was established for Max von Pettenkofer at the university of Munich. After Pettenkofer, his successors tried to advance the science of hygiene each in
Mathias Schütz
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