Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Homosexuality

  • Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and the Berlin Institute for Sexual Science, 1919–1933

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “Per scientiam ad justitiam” (Justice through science)– Motto engraved over the entrance to the Institute for Sexual Sciences Paragraph 175 (§175) of the German Penal Code, adopted in 1871, criminalized male homosexual activity, making it punishable by imprisonment and loss of civil rights. In addition, the enormous social stigma attached to being…