Summary
Pathologist and founder of social medicine who, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, embodies the political imperatives of the hygienic discourse that shaped Franz Oppenheimer: his cell research was foundational for Organicism, and his conviction that social conditions facilitated epidemics broadened the physician’s task from healing individuals to healing society (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.53).
Details
- Oppenheimer called hygiene, in his essay on Virchow, the art of the ‘medical statesman’, or practical sociology (PDF p.53).
- In 1877 Virchow publicly debated Ernst Haeckel, who sought to drive a wedge between Darwinists and Social Democrats by rejecting their association (PDF p.56).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Organicism, Rassenhygiene