Mia Florin-Sefton

Bio

Mia Florin-Sefton is a PhD candidate and University Writing Instructor at Columbia University. Her dissertation examines the shifting relationships between biological and economic theories of heredity and inheritance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century succession narratives. She is also currently a Public Humanities Fellow at the Heyman Centre for the Humanities.

Contributions

Before and After Hormones: Youth and the Eugenic Imagination

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In Germany in 1923 everyone was talking about their hormones. This was, in large part, thanks to the popular release of a medical education film called Der Steinach-Film. Der Steinach-Film was sponsored by the Universum Film-Akiten Gescellschaft (Ufa), a German motion-picture production company known for producing artistically outstanding and technically competent films during the silent era, and which from 1918 onwards included a cultural division that produced and distributed medical education...

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eugenics medicine film