Race, Genetics, and Science: Resisting Racism in the 1930s - Softcover

Iltis, Hugo

 
9788021087644: Race, Genetics, and Science: Resisting Racism in the 1930s
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8021087641 ISBN 13: 9788021087644
Verlag: Masaryk University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Race, Genetics, and Science, a collection of writings by Hugo Iltis, renowned biographer of the father of genetics Gregor Mendel (1924, English trans. 1932), is extraordinarily timely and of great interest to today’s world. Writing in the 1930s, at the height of Nazi Germany’s rise to power, Iltis used his extensive knowledge of Mendelian genetics to dismantle the “intellectual poison gas” being disseminated by Nazi theorists. His courage in standing up to the false science used to justify torture and death inflicted on people of Jewish ancestry caught the attention of none other than Albert Einstein. Einstein assisted in arranging Iltis’s escape from Czechoslovakia a few months before the Nazi takeover of the country in March, 1939. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about combating rising racism in today’s politics, science, and governance.

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Verlag
Masaryk University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
8021087641
ISBN 13 
9788021087644
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
174
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