The article Familien und Vererbungsforschung written by Amos Kuster and published in the Historische Anthropologie Journal might be of interest to Hmadness readers.

Here is the abstract:

“In the early twentieth century, psychiatric research in heredity took up statistical approaches from human genetics. On this basis, the psychiatrist and eugenicist Ernst Rüdin developed a programme for calculating probabilities of disease in different populations. Rüdin and his colleagues collected data for this research at the Basel Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Friedmatt from 1925 to 1928. This article shows on a micro level how psychiatric research in the clinic generated data for statistical analysis of heredity. The patients view here is central to an understanding of scientific research. Furthermore, the contribution offers new perspectives to the historical-anthropological study of illness and family”.