Article ID: CBB001510246

Times of Danger: Embryos, Sperm and Precarious Reproduction ca. 1870s--1910s (2015)

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Kampf, Antje (Author)


History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume: 37, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 68-86


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Temporalities of Reproduction
Language: English

This paper discusses the rise and fall of the theory of paternal transmission, drawing attention to the hitherto underresearched debates about the importance and impact of male-mediated harm to the embryo in reproduction that peaked around the turn of the twentieth century. The focus is on the implications of the twin “great social evils,” syphilis and alcohol, which converged at the time of a general transformation of medicine into experimental science and a concomitant rise in new concepts of heredity. Looking at the way in which the issue of time added to profound changes which were linked to particular visions of society and changes in the politics of gender at the turn of the century, I examine the asymmetrical relationship of sociopolitical and epistemological dimensions of time and reproduction. The paper shows how these debates were positioned within the wider context of eugenics and in relation to concepts of male reproduction that involved fundamental political, social and moral dimensions.

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Article Bock von Wülfingen, Bettina; Brandt, Christina; Lettow, Susanne; Vienne, Florence (2015) Temporalities of Reproduction: Practices and Concepts from the Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 1-16). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Paul, Diane B.
Goy, Ina
Babcock, Gunnar
Teicher, Amir
Wülfingen, Bettina Bock v.
Wellmann, Janina
Concepts
Biology
Reproduction
Embryology
Heredity
Eugenics
Science and politics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Ancient
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Greece
United States
Norway
Germany
Rome (Italy)
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