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Unlearning Eugenics in Post-Nazi Europe

By guest contributor Jonathon Catlin The New York Consortium for Intellectual History recently hosted Dagmar Herzog (CUNY) for a discussion of her new book, Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (Wisconsin, 2018). Three scholars offered responses: Danilyn… Continue Reading →

Karl Philipp Moritz and Oralism

By guest contributor Paul Babinski In 1783 Karl Philipp Moritz went to Berlin’s CharitĂ© hospital looking for a human guinea pig. What we know of the deaf teenager he brought home, Karl Friedrich Mertens, comes from two accounts Moritz published… Continue Reading →

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