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Addressing the complex issue of euthanasia in Uwe Timm's novel Ikarien. The birth of racial hygiene out of the spirit of utopian ideals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Presented Master's thesis deals with euthanasia in the novel "Ikarien" by German author Uwe Timm. The thesis highlights development of its main character Alfred Ploetz, an originator of so-called racial hygiene (German variation of eugenics).
Bičík, Miroslav
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'THE QUALITY AND NOT ONLY THE QUANTITY OF AUSTRALIA'S PEOPLE' Ruby Rich and the Racial Hygiene Association of NSW [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is an examination of Ruby Rich (1888-1988), an Australian feminist, concert pianist, Zionist, pacifist and eugenicist. Although much lauded by her peers, Rich has gone largely unexamined by historians, particularly in contrast to the recent ...
Rees, Anne
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Science and political ideology: The example of Nazi Germany

open access: yesMètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2020
Although in their basic framework Nazi anti-Semitic and racist ideology and policies were not grounded in science, scientists not only supported them in various ways, but also took advantage of them, for example by using the new possibilities of ...
Ute Deichmann
doaj   +1 more source

La Representación del Otro en las elites intelectuales europeas y latinoamericanas: Un siglo de pensamiento racialista 1830-1930

open access: yesIberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011
Objetivo general de éste artículo es analizar – durante cien años, a partir de las Independencias aproximadamente 1830 – las profundas imbricaciones entre el positivismo y el liberalismo, en las elites europeas y latinoamericanas, en relación a los ...
Marta Elena Casaús Arzú
doaj   +1 more source

Experimental sleep loss, racial bias, and the decision criterion to shoot in the Police Officer’s Dilemma task

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Violent behavior, police brutality, and racial discrimination are currently at the forefront of society’s attention, and they should be. We investigated whether mild sleep loss—as typical for many adults throughout the work week—could aggravate the socio-
Michael K. Scullin   +3 more
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Bilateral occipital lobe infarct neglect deficit (BLIND) syndrome

open access: yesJournal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2021
Cortical blindness is characterized by loss of vision due to dysfunction of the visual cortices, most commonly secondary to bilateral ischemic infarcts of the occipital lobe.
S Shanmugam   +5 more
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The impact of immigration detention on the health of asylum seekers during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesSSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022
COVID-19 disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority groups as well as people in jails and immigration detention centers in the United States.
Elizabeth K. Singer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anthroposophical Curative Education in the Third Reich: The Advantages of an Outsider

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2006
Anthroposophical curative education originates from the philosophical and pedagogical ideas of Rudolf Steiner. Born in Germany in 1924, in the heyday of racial hygiene, and with a phase of establishment parallel to the growth of National Socialism, this ...
Bente Edlund
doaj   +1 more source

How the Use by Eugenicists of Family Trees and Other Genealogical Technologies Informed and Reflected Discourses on Race and Race Crossing during the Era of Moral Condemnation: Mixed-Race in 1920s and 1930s Britain

open access: yesGenealogy, 2018
In the 1920s and 30s, significant empirical studies were undertaken on mixed-race (‘hybrid’) populations in Britain’s seaport communities.
Peter J. Aspinall
doaj   +1 more source

Tuhman ja yhteiskunnalle vaarallisen tytön merkkejä – Alaikäisten pakkosterilointien perustelut Suomessa vuosina 1935–1970

open access: yesEnnen ja Nyt: Historian Tietosanomat
Tutkimuksemme osoittaa, miten kansantaloudellisen rasitteen ja vahvan kansakunnan romahtamisen uhalla perusteltiin alaikäisten pakkosterilointeja vuosina 1935–1970.
Susanna Mansikkamäki, Lilja Aikio
doaj   +1 more source

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