The self as project : politics and the human sciences / edited by Greg Eghigian, Andreas Killen, and Christine Leuenberger.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Eghigian, Greg, 1961-, Killen, Andreas, Leuenberger, Christine
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Series:	Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser. v. 22.
Subjects:	Self > History > 20th century. Identity (Psychology) > History > 20th century. Social sciences > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the self as project : politics and the human sciences in the twentieth century / Greg Eghigian, Andreas Killen, Christine Leuenberger
Blueprints for change : the human sciences and the coercive transformation of deviants in Russia, 1890-1930 / Daniel Beer
Weimar psychotechnics between Americanism and Fascism / Andreas Killen
War neurosis, adjustment problems in veterans, and an ill nation : the disciplinary project of American psychiatry during and after World War II / Hans Pols
Sick heil : self and illness in nazi Germany / Geoffrey Cocks
From the inside out : therapeutic penology and political liberalism in postwar California / Volker Janssen
"New Soviet man" inside machine : human engineering, spacecraft design, and the construction of communism / Slava Gerovitch
Supervising spoiled selfhood : inquiry and interpretation in the history of modern American child adoption / Ellen Herman
Cultures of categories : psychological diagnoses as institutional and political projects before and after the transition from state socialism in 1989 in East Germany / Christine Leuenberger
The Chimera of liberal individualism : how cells became selves in human clinical genetics / Aryn Martin
Self-development and civic virtue : mental health and citizenship in the Netherlands, 1945-2005 / Harry Oosterhuis.

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