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- Title
Achselschweiß und Ohrenschmalz: Medizin und Anthropologie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.
- Authors
Gebke, Julia
- Abstract
To this day, medical, biochemical and other scientists are concerned with the question whether dif ferences of sex or ethnicity correspond to dif ferences in body odor. In 2010, a discovery in the gene ABCC11 reinforced such considerations and once again drew the attention to the nexus between axillary perspiration and cerumen. This way, research from the early twentieth century imbedded in the ideological framework of »race medicine« found its disputable verification by modern genetics. Specific areas of research always ref lect their own time and space. Keeping this firmly in mind, the essay tackles the question of which environmental conditioning, e.g. cultural and academic socialization, can be traced in scientific texts dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century and written in Bonn, Moscow, and Tokyo. This way, the essay aims to reveal both the transnational entanglements and the specific peculiarities and biases of this research.
- Subjects
BONN (Germany); MOSCOW (Russia); ETHNICITY; BODY odor; TWENTIETH century; EARWAX; SOCIALIZATION; BIOCHEMICAL models; RESEARCH bias; SWEAT glands; ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis; GENETICS
- Publication
Werkstatt Geschichte (Transcript Verlag), 2023, Vol 31, Issue 87, p43
- ISSN
0942-704X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14361/zwg-2023-870105