Biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized peoples

Biological Problems of Racial Hygiene and the Cultivated Peoples is a book that the Greek-Swiss doctor and later university professor Stavros Zurukzoglu published in Munich's Bergmann Verlag in 1925 as the 123rd issue in the series Grenzfragen des Nerven- und Geistenleben , edited by Ernst Kretschmer .

content

Zurukzoglu's work is mainly based on the work of the racial hygienist Fritz Lenz (15% of all references and quotations) as well as on the work of his Munich teachers Ignaz Kaup (4% of all references and quotations) and Max von Gruber (3% of all references and quotations).

reception

The gynecologist and pathologist Robert Meyer (1925), the Austro-American internist Julius Bauer (1926), the German genetic researcher and eugenicist Rainer Fetscher (1926) and the German anatomist and anthropologist Karl Otto Henckel (1926) praised the book as “a comprehensive examination of the theoretical foundation of breed hygiene ”. Fritz Lenz and the city medical councilor and royal Prussian chief medical officer Wilhelm von Drigalski criticized the textbook character and contradictions of the work, as well as the fact that Zurukzoglu removed the "racial hygiene concepts from German reality". Lenz's "aggressive argumentation suggests an offended feeling of self-worth when it says: 'Or does Mr. Zurukzoglu ask that I should show his race the same love as my own?'"

The Swiss doctor Carmen Andrea Pfortmüller wrote a dissertation on the work in 2007 under the supervision of the medical historian Urs Boschung .

Derukzoglu writings derived therefrom (selection)

Zurukzoglu processed the content of his biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized peoples in the following further writings (cf. Pfortmüller, 2010):

• The concept of racial hygiene. In: Journal of Tuberculosis . Volume 44, 1926, p. 152 f.
• A study on sexually transmitted diseases in Switzerland. In: Archive for Social Hygiene and Demography , Issue 4, 1927, pp. 406–408.
• Aims and tasks of eugenics (racial hygiene) . Special print from the federal government , s. a. 1927 or later.
• Fritz Lenz, Human Selection and Racial Hygiene (Eugenics). In: General Statistical Archive , No. 21, Volume 1, 1931, p. 471 f.
• A system of practical eugenics carried out in the canton of Vaud . In: Archive for Social Hygiene and Demography , Issue 4, 1932, pp. 303-306.
• Fundamental to the problem of differential fertility . In: Internationale Statistische Zeitschrift , 10, 1932, pp. 1-8.
• Marriage and hygiene , Verlag A. Francke AG , Bern, 1934
• The alcohol question in Switzerland , Benno Schwabe und Co. Verlag , Basel, 1935
• Prevention of hereditary offspring. Benno Schwabe and Co. Verlag, Basel 1938
• New possibilities in the fight against alcoholism. Special print from Health and Welfare , Issue 8, 1941, p. 15 f.
• The alcohol question and its solution , supplements for contemporary health care , issue 1, 1945, pp. 3–24.

literature

Reviews

• Robert Meyer : "Zurukzoglu, Stavros: Biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized peoples." In: Reports on the entire gynecology and obstetrics as well as their border areas . Volume 8, 1925, pp. 780-782.
• Fritz Lenz : "Dr. Stavros Zurukzoglu: Biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized peoples. “In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift . No. 33, 1925, pp. 1390-1391.
• Julius Bauer : "." In the Central Congress Gazette for all of internal medicine and its border areas . 1926.
• Rainer Fetscher : "Zurukzoglu, Stavros: Biological Problems of Racial Hygiene and the Cultivated Peoples." In: About the entire physiology and experimental pharmacology . Volume 33, 1926, p. 675 f.
• Wilhelm von Drigalski : "Stavros Zurukzoglu, Biological Problems of Racial Hygiene and the Cultivated Peoples." In: German Medical Weekly . No. 31, 1926, number of pages unknown.
• Karl Otto Henckel : "Biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized peoples." In: Klinische Wochenschrift . No. 8, 1926, p. 329.

dissertation

• Carmen Andrea Pfortmüller: Hygienist between prophylaxis and selection: Stavros Zurukzoglu: The racial hygienic views of the later professor of hygiene at the University of Bern, based on the work “Biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized peoples”, 1925. Dissertation under Urs Boschung . University of Bern, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pfortmüller 2007, p. 36.
2. ↑ Pfortmüller 2007, p. 38.
3. ↑ Pfortmüller 2007, p. 38.
4. ↑ Pfortmüller 2007, p. 39.
5. ↑ Entry of the dissertation on the specialist portal for the historical sciences of Switzerland