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Bio-politics between Nation and Empire
East Central Europe Pub Date : 2016-09-16 , DOI: 10.1163/18763308-04302006
Keely Stauter-Halsted 1
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The Polish Eugenics Society, founded in 1915, wielded considerable influence in the founding years of the Polish Second Republic. Leading medical experts in the Society placed issues of venereal contamination and the expansion of public sex at the forefront of their concerns. Unlike similar movements in Western Europe and North America, however, Polish eugenicists rarely attacked ethnic or religious difference and the organization included several prominent assimilated Jewish doctors. This article looks at the roots of Polish eugenics in the context of late imperial East-Central Europe, showing how scientific experts used their heightened public stature to challenge the governing empires. It demonstrates the ways in which the movement sought to protect the upper classes while promoting sterilization of unworthy lower-class citizens. The piece argues that the Polish eugenics movement was more classist than racist and that its scientific vocabulary helped position the Polish nation, broadly conceived, as more progressive than the imperial states governing Polish territory.

中文翻译:

国家与帝国之间的生命政治

波兰优生学会成立于 1915 年,在波兰第二共和国的成立年代产生了相当大的影响。该协会的主要医学专家将性病污染和公共性行为的扩大置于他们关注的首要位置。然而,与西欧和北美的类似运动不同,波兰优生学家很少攻击种族或宗教差异,该组织包括几位著名的同化犹太医生。本文着眼于晚期帝国东中欧背景下波兰优生学的根源,展示了科学专家如何利用他们更高的公众地位来挑战统治帝国。它展示了该运动试图保护上层阶级同时促进对不值得的下层公民进行绝育的方式。
更新日期:2016-09-16
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