Polish neuropsychiatric environment to sterilization laws in the thirties of the twentieth century
Journal Title: Psychiatria Polska - Year 2014, Vol 48, Issue 1
Abstract
The article describes the considerations that were carried out by Polish psychiatrists and neurologists in the thirties of the twentieth century, due to the sterilization of persons with mental disorders. The paper presents a short history of sterilization laws in the world. The reaction to the German Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring (1933) among Polish psychiatrists was presented. The views of psychiatrists and neurologists to the proposed sterilization law in Poland were also outlined. Two projects of eugenic laws in Poland came from psychiatrists. Sterilization Law in Poland ultimately was enacted.
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Ryszard Kujawski
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