In Search of "Aryan Blood"

Rachel E. Boaz
Title
In Search of "Aryan Blood"
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Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany
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LIST OF FIGURES Chapter I INTRODUCTION Chapter II THE EMERGENCE OF BLOOD SCIENCE “Contagious Blood” in German Fiction and Early Blood Science Origins of Serology The Völkisch Notion of “Blood Defilement Seroanthropology Jewish Physicians and Blood Science Postwar Blood Science Chapter III SEROANTHROPOLOGY IN THE EARLY 1920S. BLOOD, RACE, AND EUGENICS Frigyes Verzár and Oszkár Weszeczky: Seroanthropological Research in Hungary Surveying “Native Germans” Blood Type and Genetic Inferiority Völkisch Research IV ORGANIZING SEROANTHROPOLOGY: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR BLOOD GROUP RESEARCH Otto Reche and Racial Anthropology. The German Institute for Blood Group Research Chapter V SEROANTHROPOLOGY AT ITS HEIGHT: DISTINGUISHING THOSE WITH “PURE BLOOD” Studies of “Native Germans” Biased Research Chapter VI THE JEW AS EXAMINER AND EXAMINED Manoiloff’s “Serochemistry” and Jewish Blood Seroanthropological Analysis of Jews Völkisch Propaganda Jews and Seroanthropology Chapter VII BLOOD AS METAPHOR AND SCIENCE IN THE NUREMBERG RACE LAWS Seroanthropology in 1933 Proponents of Seroanthropology Racial “Reform” under Nazism “Blood Defilement” Diverse Means of “Blood Defilement” Seroanthropological Research in the Third Reich The German Institute for Blood Group Research Chapter VIII THE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE OF SEROANTHROPOLOGY DURING WORLD WAR II Seroanthropology and National Socialist Medicine Seroanthropological Research Seroanthropology and Nazi Racial Ideology Clinical Serology Chapter IX CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rachel E. Boaz

In Search of "Aryan Blood"

Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany

Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how the discovery of blood groups in around 1900 galvanised not only old mythologies of blood and origin but also new developments in anthropology and eugenics in the 1920s and 1930s. Boaz portrays how the personal motivations of blood scientists influenced their professional research, ultimately demonstrating how conceptually indeterminate and politically volatile the science of race was under the Nazi regime.
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Rachel E. Boaz

Rachel E. Boaz received her PhD from Kent State University. She is adjunct professor in the Department of History at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.