Bryant Thomas
Ramlerstrasse 32, D-13355 Berlin, Germany.
Med Hist. 2012 Apr;56(2):237-54. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2011.35.
The physician and sexologist Albert Moll, from Berlin, was one of the main protagonists within the German discourse on the opportunities and dangers of social engineering, by eugenic interventions into human life in general, as well as into reproductive hygiene and healthcare policy in particular. One of the main sexological topics that were discussed intensively during the late-Wilhelminian German Reich and the Weimar Republic was the question of the legalisation of voluntary and compulsory sterilisations on the basis of medical, social, eugenic, economic or criminological indications. As is clear from Moll's conservative principles of medical ethics, and his conviction that the genetic knowledge required for eugenically indicated sterilisations was not yet sufficiently elaborated, he had doubts and worries about colleagues who were exceedingly zealous about these surgical sterilisations--especially Gustav Boeters from Saxony.
来自柏林的医生兼性学家阿尔伯特·莫尔，是德国关于社会工程的机遇与危险这一话语中的主要倡导者之一，这种社会工程涉及对人类生活进行优生干预，尤其是对生殖卫生和医疗保健政策的干预。在德意志帝国威廉二世统治后期和魏玛共和国时期，人们深入讨论的主要性学话题之一，是基于医学、社会、优生、经济或犯罪学指征进行自愿和强制绝育合法化的问题。从莫尔保守的医学伦理原则以及他认为优生绝育所需的基因知识尚未充分阐明这一点可以清楚地看出，他对那些热衷于这些绝育手术的同事，尤其是来自萨克森的古斯塔夫·伯特斯，心存疑虑和担忧。
