Sexual anomalies and perversions : physical and psychological development and treatment a textbook for students, psychologists, criminologists, probation officers, judges, and educationists / a summary of the works of Magnus Hirschfeld ; compiled as a humble memorial by his pupils.
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Date:
- [between 1935 and 1939?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Sexual anomalies and perversions : physical and psychological development and treatment a textbook for students, psychologists, criminologists, probation officers, judges, and educationists / a summary of the works of Magnus Hirschfeld ; compiled as a humble memorial by his pupils. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[The Publisher's Preface, substantially as it appears in the Brit- ish edition, is reprinted below, in the belief that it will contribute to a fuller understanding of the life and work of the author, the distinguished medical scientist Magnus Hirschfeld. [The American Publishers] Sexual Anomalies, which is hereby offered to students, crimi- nologists, educators, and others to whom the subject may be of professional interest, is a summary of the life work of the late Magnus Hirschfeld, M.D., and is issued as a modest memorial to a great scientist and a warm-hearted, courageous man. In order to appreciate the work of Magnus Hirschfeld, it is necessary to recall that sexual science was really born in the second half of last century and that its early exponents had to contend with all the difficulties represented by social hypocrisy, misrepre- sentation, and persecution. The nineteenth century was a period of great scientific progress, both as regards research and as regards the application of its results. Yet the objective analysis and clas- sification of sexual anomalies, which in both their origins and their effects constitute a social as well as a physiological problem, was taboo. The hypocritical morality of the nineteenth century re- fused to notice the existence of these phenomena, and placed every conceivable obstacle in the path of the courageous workers who were determined to study them. One of the first pioneers in the systematic investigation of sexual aberrations was Dr. Kahn, a Ruthenian physician who, though liv- ing in straitened circumstances, with few opportunities for re- search, nevertheless enriched the science of sexual pathology by many important discoveries. Another pioneer who deserves recog-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B20442233_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
