History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945

Marius Turda is Reader in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Modernism and Eugenics (2010) and Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014).

• Introduction (Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University)Part I - State-Orientated Eugenic Movements1. Austria Overview (Thomas Mayer, University of Vienna)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography2. PolandOverview (Kamila Uzarczyk, Wroclaw Medical University)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography3. Czechoslovakia (Bohemia and Moravia):Overview (Michal Šimunek, Instiute for Contemporary History, Prague)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography4. HungaryOverview (Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography5. Romania I.Overview (Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography6. Yugoslavia I. SloveniaOverview (Ana Cergol Paradiž, University of Ljubljana)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography7. Yugoslavia II. CroatiaOverview (Vjera Duic, University of Zagreb)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography8. Yugoslavia III. SerbiaOverview (Vladimir Petrovic, Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliographyPart II - Minority Eugenic Movements9. Yugoslavia IV. Volksdeutsche Eugenics in VojvodinaOverview (Filip Krcmar, University of Novi Sad)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliography10. Romania II. Saxon Eugenics in Transylvania Overview (Tudor Georgescu, Oxford Brookes University)Main Eugenicists and Key TextsGlossaryBibliographyAppendix: Eugenic Societies in East-Central EuropeIndex

A number of things make this volume extremely useful for scholars of eugenics ... One immediate strength lies in the richness of the sources used ... Another is the nuanced and complex approach contributors take to exploring the autarchic eugenic traditions of their individual states ... while, at the same time, detailing attempts to establish common eugenic values ... This extremely well-written and thoroughly-researched volume will provide scholars of eugenics and related subjects with a wealth of information and primary sources. It makes a major contribution to the study of eugenic thought.