Plant breeding and agrarian research in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes, 1933-1945 : calories, caoutchouc, careers / Susanne Heim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heim, Susanne, 1955-

Series:

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 260.

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 260

Standardized Title:

Kalorien, Kautschuk, Karrieren. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Plant breeding--Research--Germany--History.

Plant breeding.

Animal breeding--Research--Germany--History.

Animal breeding.

Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften.

Agriculture--Research--Germany--History.

Agriculture.

Science and state--Germany--History--20th century.

Science and state.

Agriculture--Research.

History.

Animal breeding--Research.

Plant breeding--Research.

Germany.

National socialism and science.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Calories, caoutchouc, careers

Place of Publication:

[Dordrecht] : Springer, [2008]

Summary:

The series Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science was conceived in the broadest framework of interdisciplinary and international concerns. Natural scientists, mathematicians, social scientists and philosophers have contributed to the series, as have historians and sociologists of science, linguists, psychologists, physicians, and literary critics.

Along with the principal collaboration of Americans, the series has been able to include works by authors from many other countries around the world. As European science has become world science, philosophical, historical, and critical studies of that science have become of universal interest as well.

The editors believe that philosophy of science should itself be scientific, hypothetical as well as self-consciously critical, humane as well as rational, sceptical and undogmatic while also receptive to discussion of first principles. One of the aims of Boston Studies, therefore, is to develop collaboration among scientists and philosophers. However, because of this merging, not only has the neat structure of classical physics changed, but, also, a variety of wide-ranging questions have been encountered. As a result, philosophy of science has become epistemological and historical: once the identification of scientific method with that of physics had been queried, not only did biology and psychology come under scrutiny, but so did history and the social sciences, particularly economics, sociology, and anthropology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science looks into and reflects on all these interactions in an effort to understand the scientific enterprise from every viewpoint.

Contents:

Introduction: Politics and Agricultural Research 1

Sources and Literature 9

Calories - Agricultural Research, the Food Economy and War 15

Herbert Backe and Science Policy 15

Research on Plant and Animal Breeding 23

Foreign Currencies, Genetics and the Fodder Gap 23

Autochthonous Animal Species and Artificial Insemination 35

The Four-Year Plan, 'Greater Europe', and Substitute Substances 46

Hydrobiology and Limnology for the Four-Year Plan 46

Institute Projects in South-Eastern Europe 53

Research on Native Textile Plants 63

Productivization of People 69

The Science of Agricultural Work 69

Work Physiology and Nutritional Science 78

Resume: War as Opportunity 91

Caoutchouc - A Vital War Reserve 97

The Development of a Research Programme 97

Dependence on Natural Rubber 98

The Kok-Sagyz Network 102

Slave Labour for Science 118

Kok-Sagyz Cultivation in German-Occupied Europe 118

Plant Breeding Research in Auschwitz 133

Resume: Scientific Productivity and Terror 149

Careers - Hans Stubbe and Klaus von Rosenstiel 155

Two Breeding Researchers 155

The Pure Air of Scientific Research 156

The Seamy Side of Academic Life 162

The Advance of Science 165

Wild Plants as a Genetic Resource 165

Research Organisation in the Occupied East 178

Post-War Careers 184

Resume: Creators, Experts, Servants 190

Science, Nazi Rule and War 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.

ISBN:

9781402067174

1402067178

OCLC:

173239128