LEADER 04259nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910463545603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8135-5970-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813559704 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060394 035 $a(EBL)1295723 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000918193 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11485425 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918193 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10894578 035 $a(PQKB)10294457 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1295723 035 $a(OCoLC)853510642 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25509 035 $a(DE-B1597)526474 035 $a(OCoLC)852898567 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813559704 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1295723 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10733304 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL504616 035 $a(OCoLC)853364255 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060394 100 $a20120614d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHormones, heredity, and race$b[electronic resource] $espectacular failure in interwar Vienna /$fCheryl A. Logan 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment 225 0$aStudies in modern science, technology, and the environment 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-5969-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Constructing heredity -- pt. 2. Reform eugenics. 330 $aEarly in the twentieth century, arguments about "nature" and "nurture" pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists-Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach-who sought to show how the environment could shape heredity through the impact of hormones. It also explores the dynamic of failure through both scientific and social lenses. During World War I, the three men were well respected scientists; by 1934, one was dead by his own hand, another was in exile, and the third was subject to ridicule. Paul Kammerer had spent years gathering zoological evidence on whether environmental change could alter heredity, using his research as the scientific foundation for a new kind of eugenics-one that challenged the racism growing in mainstream eugenics. By 1918, he drew on the pioneering research of two colleagues who studied how secretions shaped sexual attributes to argue that hormones could alter genes. After 1920, Julius Tandler employed a similar concept to restore the health and well-being of Vienna's war-weary citizens. Both men rejected the rigidly acting genes of the new genetics and instead crafted a biology of flexible heredity to justify eugenic reforms that respected human rights. But the interplay of science and personality with the social and political rise of fascism and with antisemitism undermined their ideas, leading to their spectacular failure. 410 0$aStudies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment 606 $aPhysical anthropology$zAustria$zVienna$y20th century 606 $aNature and nurture$zAustria$zVienna$y20th century 606 $aEndocrinology$zAustria$zVienna$y20th century 606 $aHeredity$zAustria$zVienna$y20th century 606 $aInheritance of acquired characters$zAustria$zVienna$y20th century 606 $aRejuvenation$zAustria$zVienna$y20th century 606 $aRacism in anthropology$zAustria$zVienna$y20th century 607 $aVienna (Austria)$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhysical anthropology 615 0$aNature and nurture 615 0$aEndocrinology 615 0$aHeredity 615 0$aInheritance of acquired characters 615 0$aRejuvenation 615 0$aRacism in anthropology 676 $a599.909436/130904 700 $aLogan$b Cheryl A$01040275 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463545603321 996 $aHormones, heredity, and race$92462998 997 $aUNINA