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Plenary Session III: Past and Future of Psychiatric Genetics

✍ Scribed by Propping, Peter

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 24 KB
Volume: 81
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19981106)81:6<473::aid-ajmg4>3.0.co;2-s

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✦ Synopsis

What inspired the eminent psychiatrist Ernst Ru ¨din to push the German sterilization program of 1933? What made Franz Kallmann ask for the sterilization of schizophrenic heterozygotes in 1935, about 20% of the German population? Almost all German psychiatrists abandoned their patients and accepted the euthanasia program of the Nazi government without protest. Then, as now, major psychiatric diseases were thought to be genetically transmitted. Genetic diseases were thought to be virtually incurable. In the euthanasia program all incurable German psychiatric and all German-Jewish psychiatric patients were to be killed by gas. The very few MDs who refused to participate in the paper work of the selection or the actual murder of the patients experienced neither punishment nor disadvantages in their careers. They were easily replaced by others who saw their financial advantage in participating. The euthanasia program inspired large research projects of neuroanatomists and psychiatrists. I mention Julius Hallervorden in the institute of Hugo

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