Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
6-2008
Journal or Book Title
Endeavour
Volume
32
Issue
2
First Page
64
Last Page
69
DOI
10.1016/j.endeavour.2008.04.004
Abstract
Throughout the nineteenth century, German medical, scientific and legal scholars found themselves puzzled and engaged by the diverse forms of human sexuality. Psychiatrists like Richard von Krafft-Ebing who were interested in explaining deviance encountered scientifically trained advocates for emancipation like Magnus Hirschfeld, and the result was the new – if unstable – discipline of sexual science. Because they based arguments for social intervention on knowledge of nature and the body, the field's proponents – like the advocates of eugenics and racial hygiene – argued that they were biologists. After 1900, this mutual biological engagement of sexual science and eugenics revealed itself in overlapping debates between the proponents of both fields.
Copyright Owner
Elsevier Ltd.
Copyright Date
2008
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Amidon, Kevin S., "Sex on the brain: The rise and fall of German sexual science" (2008). World Languages and Cultures Publications. 88.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/88
Included in
European History Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons
Comments
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Endeavour. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Endeavor, [32, 2, (2008)] doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2008.04.004