Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940

The history of eugenics in the Baltic States is largely unknown. The book compares for the first time the eugenic projects of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the related disciplines of racial anthropology and psychiatry, and situates them within the wider European context. Strong ethno-nationalism...

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Main Authors: Felder, Bjö M, Weindling, Paul J
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York Rodopi 2013
BRILL
Edition:1
Series:On the boundary of two worlds
Subjects:
Estonia-Politics and government-1918-1940
Eugenics
Eugenics-Baltic States
Latvia-Politics and government-1918-1940
Lithuania-Politics and government-1918-1940
ISBN:9789042037229, 9042037229
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940 -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Eugenics, Sterilisation and the Racial State: The Baltic States, Russia, and the Global Eugenics Movement -- Part 1: Eugenics in the Baltics -- Race, Eugenics and National Identity in the Eastern Baltic: From Racial Surveys to Racial States -- The Application of Eugenics in Estonia 1918-1940 -- Racial Identity and Physical Anthropology in Estonia 1800-1945 -- God forgives - but Nature never will" Racial Identity, Racial Anthropology, and Eugenics in Latvia 1918-1940 -- Latvian Psychiatry and Medical Legislation of the 1930s and the German Sterilisation Law -- "Over-Latvianisation in Heaven" Attitudes towards Contraception and Abortion in Latvia 1918-1940 -- Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas Blažys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940 -- Part 2: Eugenics in the Baltic Sea Region -- World War One and National Characterology in East-Central Europe -- Soviet Eugenics and National Minorities: Eradication of Syphilis in Buriat-Mongolia as an Element of Social Modernisation of a Frontier Region 1923-1928 -- Sterilisation in the Swedish Welfare State: A Gender Issue? -- Eugenic Concerns, Scientific Practices: International Relations and National Adaptations in the Establishment of Psychiatric Genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA, and Scandinavia 1910-1960 -- Contributors