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Health Culture In The Heartland, 1880-1980 : An Oral History

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A Dream Of Undying Fame : How Freud Betrayed His Mentor And Invented Psychoanalysis

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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster

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Picture Imperfect : Photography And Eugenics 1870-1940

  • Picture Imperfect : Photography And Eugenics 1870-1940

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    Anne Maxwell

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    Book, Sussex Academic Press, 2008

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    Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, the author argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement’s success - not only did it allow eugenicists to identify the people with superior and inferior hereditary traits, but it helped publicize and lend scientific authority to eugenicists’ racial theories.The author further argues for a strong connection between the racial-type photographs that eugenicists created and the photographic images produced by nineteenth-century anthropologists and prison authorities, and that the photographic works of contemporary liberal anthropologists played a significant role in the Eugenics Movement’s downfall.Besides adding to our knowledge of photography’s crucial role in helping to authorize and implement some of the most controversial social policies of modern times, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of racism. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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The Making Of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy

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Before Freud : Hysteria And Hypnosis In Later Nineteenth- Century Psychiatric Cases

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Thomas Eakins : Art, Medicine, And Sexuality In Nineteenth-century Philadelphia

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Inescapable Ecologies : A History Of Environment, Disease, And Knowledge

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Prescribing Faith : Medicine, Media, And Religion In American Culture

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Revolution In Mind : The Creation Of Psychoanalysis

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The Architecture Of Madness : Insane Asylums In The United States

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From Embryology To Evo-devo : A History Of Developmental Evolution

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Diagnosing Genius : The Life And Death Of Beethoven

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Rape And Sexual Power In Early America

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The Ghost Map : The Story Of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, And The Modern World

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