Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books include Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe and Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton).
""Innovative. . . . The Question of Unworthy Life attempts to restore dignity to people with disabilities who have been treated inhumanely — precisely because their humanity has gone unrecognized.""---Brian Hillman, Jewish Book Council ""[Herzog's] book opens new vistas on the past and present of disabilities. . . . Pairing first-rate scholarship with a deep moral sensibility, it restores emotion – and, when possible, voice – to those previously deemed unworthy of life.""---Corinna Treitel, Times Literary Supplement ""An outstanding history of eugenic politics in modern Germany. . . . The story Herzog tells of reformers’ struggles against such attitudes in fields like psychiatry and pedagogy, as well as in the political and public realms, is riveting and inspiring."" * Choice Reviews * ""A very valuable book."" * David Marx Book Reviews *