title: [Illnesses as racial concepts: political and scientific dimensions of a biomedical research program by Cécile and Oskar Vogt between Tiflis and Berlin (1919-1939)].
abstract: In the research of Cécile and Oskar Vogt during the 1920s at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, the notion of race had a double function. Firstly, it integrated the mapping of brain functions, the classification of psychiatric diseases, genetics, and evolutionary biology. Secondly, it proved useful in attracting funding for the creation of research facilities in Germany and the USSR. After 1933, C. and O. Vogt stopped using the term race for political reasons, but tried to offer their work as a contribution to eugenics. Bernhard Patzig, their collaborator, continued their approach during National Socialism. Distancing his research from Rüdin's statistics on heredity, but working within the paradigm of eugenics, he established the hereditary nature of certain neurological diseases and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, TU Berlin, TEL 20-1 Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, D-10587 Berlin.
authors.forename: Helga
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Satzinger
mesh_terms: D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000266:history*; D036281:Genetic Research / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D028683:National Socialism / Q000266:history*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000266:history*; D011287:Prejudice; D012426:Russia
vernacular_title: Krankheiten als Rassen: Politische und wissenschaftliche Dimensionen eines biomedizinischen Forschungsprogramms von Cécile und Oskar Vogt zwischen Tiflis und Berlin (1919-1939).