THE SELF AS PROJECT: POLITICS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Greg Eghigian, Adreas Killen, Christine Leuenberger:
Introduction: The Self as Project: Politics and the Human
Sciences in the Twentieth Century ............................ 1
Daniel Beer: Blueprints for Change: The Human Sciences
and the Coercive Transformation of Deviants in Russia,
1890-1930 ................................................... 26
Andreas Killen: Weimar Psychotechnics between Americanism
and Fascism ................................................. 48
Hans Pols: War Neurosis, Adjustment Problems in Veterans,
and an III Nation: The Disciplinary Project of American
Psychiatry during and after World War II .................... 72
Geoffrey Cocks: Sick Heil: Self and Illness in Nazi Germany .... 93
Volker Janssen: From the Inside Out: Therapeutic Penology
and Political Liberalism in Postwar California ............. 116
Slava Gerovitch: "New Soviet Man " Inside Machine: Human
Engineering, Spacecraft Design, and the Construction of
Communism .................................................. 135
Ellen Herman: Supervising Spoiled Selfhood: Inquiry and
Interpretation in the History of Modern American Child
Adoption ................................................... 158
Christine Leuenberger: Cultures of Categories: Psychological
Diagnoses as Institutional and Political Projects before
and after the Transition from State Socialism in 1989 in
East Germany ............................................... 180
Aryn Martin: The Chimera of Liberal Individualism: How
Cells Became Selves in Human Clinical Genetics ............. 205
Harry Oosterhuis: Self-Development and Civic Virtue: Mental
Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1945-2005 ....... 223
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ......................................... 249
INDEX ......................................................... 251
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