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Politics and science in wartime : comparative international perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Politics and Science in Wartime brings together a team of internationally known scholars who compare science and its practices in the Third Reich to that in other wartime nations
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., ©2005
Osiris (Bruges, Belgium), 2nd ser., v. 20, 2nd series, volume 20
Aufsatzsammlung
iv, 310 pages ; 26 cm.
9780226733296, 9780226733289, 0226733297, 0226733289
61491963
Introduction: a comparative perspective / Carola Sachse and Mark Walker
Purges in comparative perspective: rules for exclusion and inclusion in the scientific community under political pressure / Richard Bailer, Alexei Kojevnikov, and Jessica Wang
National states and international science: a comparative history of international science congresses in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russial, and Cold War United States / Ronald E. Doel, Dieter Hoffmann, and Nikolai Krementsov
Laying the foundation for wartime research: a comparative overview of science mobilization in National Socialist Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union / Walter E. Grunden, Yutaka Kawamura, Eduard Kolchinsky, Helmut Maier, and Masakatsu Yamazaki
Wartime nuclear weapons research in Germany and Japan / Walter E. Grunden, Mark Walker, and Masakatsu Yamazaki
Aerodynamics and mathematics in National Socialist Germany and fascist Italy: a comparison of research institutes / Moritz Epple, Andreas Karachalios, and Volker R. Remmert
Plant breeding on the front: imperialism, war, and exploitation / Olga Elina, Susanne Heim, and Nils Roll-Hansen
Molding national research systems: the introduction of penicillin to Germany and France / Jean Paul Gaudilliere and Bernd Gausemeier
Pathways to human experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States / Gerhard Baader, Susan E. Lederer, Morris Low, Florian Schmaltz, and Alexander V. Schwerin
Human heredity and politics: a comparative international study of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor (United States), the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics (Germany), and the Maxim Gorky Medical Genetics Institute (USSR) / Mark B. Adams, Garland E. Allen, and Sheila Faith Weiss
Psychiatric genetics in Munich and Basel between 1925 and 1945: programs
practices
comparative arrangements / Hans Jacob Ritter and Volker Roelke