Sexological Deliberation and Social Engineering: Albert Moll and the Sterilisation Debate in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany
| Autor: | Thomas Bryant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Sterilisation
History Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses Eugenics Sexology Albert Moll media_common.quotation_subject Medicine (miscellaneous) German Germany Humans Medicine Ethics Medical Castration General Nursing media_common Weimar Republic Gustav Boeters business.industry Sterilization Reproductive Genetic Diseases Inborn History 19th Century Articles History 20th Century Deliberation Dissent and Disputes language.human_language Law language Conviction Social engineering (political science) business Medical ethics |
| Zdroj: | Medical History |
| ISSN: | 2048-8343 0025-7273 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/mdh.2011.35 |
| Popis: | The physician and sexologist Albert Moll, from Berlin, was one of the main protagonists within the German discourse on the opportunities and dangers of social engineering, by eugenic interventions into human life in general, as well as into reproductive hygiene and healthcare policy in particular. One of the main sexological topics that were discussed intensively during the late-Wilhelminian German Reich and the Weimar Republic was the question of the legalisation of voluntary and compulsory sterilisations on the basis of medical, social, eugenic, economic or criminological indications. As is clear from Moll’s conservative principles of medical ethics, and his conviction that the genetic knowledge required for eugenically indicated sterilisations was not yet sufficiently elaborated, he had doubts and worries about colleagues who were exceedingly zealous about these surgical sterilisations – especially Gustav Boeters from Saxony. |
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