1. Agnes Bluhm was a German physician, eugenicist, and winner of a Goethe medal.
13 Facts About Agnes Bluhm
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Agnes Bluhm believed that German women could improve the race using eugenics and forced sterilisation.
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Agnes Bluhm wrote that the "female psyche" made her gender predisposed towards working for "racial hygiene".
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Agnes Bluhm was trained as a medical doctor and won prizes for her research.
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Agnes Bluhm believed that German women could improve the race using eugenics.
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Agnes Bluhm became the third female doctor in Berlin and she joined two fellow Zurich trained doctors to staff a clinic for poor women there in 1890.
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Agnes Bluhm had to retire from practising medicine due to problems with her ears but she redirected her efforts to medical research.
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Agnes Bluhm is said to be first German female doctor known for her research.
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Agnes Bluhm carried out research on alcoholism and heredity under early funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Agnes Bluhm was awarded a silver Leibnitz medal for her work.
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Agnes Bluhm strongly advocated against smoking, noting research which showed lower fertility in women who smoked.
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Agnes Bluhm won the Goethe-Medaille fur Kunst und Wissenschaft during the war.
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Agnes Bluhm died in Beelitz in 1943 before the end of the Second World War.