Amir Teicher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1050856 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amir Teicher |
| NOMBRES | Amir |
| APELLIDO | Teicher |
| FIRMA | TEICHER A |
| AFILIACIONES | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6890-2073 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
An Image of the Past
This article reconstructs the history of a photograph that commonly accompanies public, popular, and academic discussions of Nazi racial policy. It reveals the true origins of this photo, overturning all existing attributions in the academic literature, in museums, and in the popular media. We uncover the reasons for the most common misattributions of this image and scrutinize its de- and recontextualization by various historical actors—from Weim…
Typhoid Mary Was Not a Super-Spreader (and Super-Spreaders Are Not “Typhoid Marys”)
How family charts became Mendelian
This article offers a close examination of a small selection of pedigrees taken from German Mendelian and eugenic scholarship of the 1920s and 1930s. It examines the procedures that became customary for presenting data on human inherited pathologies, as well as the frequent changes in the information content of those charts. Relevant biographical and genealogical data was removed, and important indications regarding the diagnostic methods applied…
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany
Father of the Bride, or the Biologization of Social Animosity in Nazi Germany, 1937–1941
In 1937, to his great dismay, Nazi ethnologist Otto Reche discovered that his daughter’s suitor came from a family ‘hereditarily burdened’ with mental diseases. A strong proponent of eugenics, Reche was determined to thwart the looming wedding. He turned to the highest authority on such matters, genetic-psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin, and asked him to furnish the evidence that the planned marriage was biologically undesirable. Reche’s daughter, however…
Why Did the Nazis Sterilize the Blind? Genetics and the Shaping of the Sterilization Law of 1933
The introduction of blindness into the Sterilization Law passed by the Nazis in July 1933, was exceptional, even by the standards of the time. Prior sterilization bills had focused on mental and nervous disorders, and they almost always excluded blindness as a category. The wish to sterilize the blind cannot be explained solely as stemming from the eugenic or economic threat that they allegedly posed to German society; such threats were acknowled…
Racial zigzags
In 1907, German anthropologist Theodor Mollison invented a unique method for racial differentiation, called ‘deviation curves’. By transforming anthropometric data matrices into graphs, Mollison’s method enabled the simultaneous comparison of a large number of physical attributes of individuals and groups. However, the construction of deviation curves had been highly desultory, and their interpretation had been prone to various visual misjudgemen…
Mendel’s use of mathematical modelling
Ahnenforschung macht frei
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, German genealogists shifted their disciplinary focus to a particular type of genealogical investigation known as the ancestors’ chart (Ahnentafel). This research tool gradually rose in importance, supported by a variety of internal academic motivations, nationalistic educational agendas and business interests. At the same time, parish registers became the major source for retrieving genealogical info…
Ahnenforschung macht frei
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, German genealogists shifted their disciplinary focus to a particular type of genealogical investigation known as the ancestors’ chart (Ahnentafel). This research tool gradually rose in importance, supported by a variety of internal academic motivations, nationalistic educational agendas and business interests. At the same time, parish registers became the major source for retrieving genealogical info…
Mendel’s use of mathematical modelling
Ahnenforschung macht frei
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, German genealogists shifted their disciplinary focus to a particular type of genealogical investigation known as the ancestors’ chart (Ahnentafel). This research tool gradually rose in importance, supported by a variety of internal academic motivations, nationalistic educational agendas and business interests. At the same time, parish registers became the major source for retrieving genealogical info…
Racial zigzags
In 1907, German anthropologist Theodor Mollison invented a unique method for racial differentiation, called ‘deviation curves’. By transforming anthropometric data matrices into graphs, Mollison’s method enabled the simultaneous comparison of a large number of physical attributes of individuals and groups. However, the construction of deviation curves had been highly desultory, and their interpretation had been prone to various visual misjudgemen…
Why Did the Nazis Sterilize the Blind? Genetics and the Shaping of the Sterilization Law of 1933
The introduction of blindness into the Sterilization Law passed by the Nazis in July 1933, was exceptional, even by the standards of the time. Prior sterilization bills had focused on mental and nervous disorders, and they almost always excluded blindness as a category. The wish to sterilize the blind cannot be explained solely as stemming from the eugenic or economic threat that they allegedly posed to German society; such threats were acknowled…
Father of the Bride, or the Biologization of Social Animosity in Nazi Germany, 1937–1941
In 1937, to his great dismay, Nazi ethnologist Otto Reche discovered that his daughter’s suitor came from a family ‘hereditarily burdened’ with mental diseases. A strong proponent of eugenics, Reche was determined to thwart the looming wedding. He turned to the highest authority on such matters, genetic-psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin, and asked him to furnish the evidence that the planned marriage was biologically undesirable. Reche’s daughter, however…
How family charts became Mendelian
This article offers a close examination of a small selection of pedigrees taken from German Mendelian and eugenic scholarship of the 1920s and 1930s. It examines the procedures that became customary for presenting data on human inherited pathologies, as well as the frequent changes in the information content of those charts. Relevant biographical and genealogical data was removed, and important indications regarding the diagnostic methods applied…
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany
Typhoid Mary Was Not a Super-Spreader (and Super-Spreaders Are Not “Typhoid Marys”)
An Image of the Past
This article reconstructs the history of a photograph that commonly accompanies public, popular, and academic discussions of Nazi racial policy. It reveals the true origins of this photo, overturning all existing attributions in the academic literature, in museums, and in the popular media. We uncover the reasons for the most common misattributions of this image and scrutinize its de- and recontextualization by various historical actors—from Weim…
Political science (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Eugenics (3 obras) · Genealogy (3 obras) · History (3 obras)