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Bruno Schulz and his 1926 Article: "Regarding the Problem of Determining Hereditary Prognosis. The Affliction Prospects for Nephews and Nieces of Schizophrenics".
Schizophr Bull
October 2022
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
Authored by one of Rüdin's most productive colleagues, Bruno Schulz, the main goal of this article was to estimate risk for dementia praecox (DP) in nieces/nephews (n/n) of DP probands to address practical questions for genetic counseling. Schulz selected 76 primary probands from records of the genealogical department of the German Research Institute of Psychiatry who both had DP and had siblings-secondary probands-with children aged 20 years or greater. Those children had a morbid risk for DP of 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysician complicity in human rights violations: Involuntary sterilization among women from Mexico and Central America seeking asylum in the United States.
J Forensic Leg Med
July 2022
CUNY School of Medicine, 160 Convent Avenue, Harris Hall, Suite 113, New York, NY, 10031, USA. Electronic address:
Involuntary sterilization is a violation of human rights and grounds for asylum in the United States. Forensic medical evaluations can be useful in documenting this form of persecution and supporting asylees' claims for immigration relief. We conducted a retrospective case analysis of the personal and medical affidavits of 14 asylum-seeking women from four Latin America countries who all reported they had been involuntarily sterilized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxic: The Challenge of Involuntary Contraception in Incompetent Psychiatric Patients Treated with Teratogenic Medication.
J Clin Ethics
March 2022
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education and Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai and Attending Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York USA.
Limitations on reproductive decision making, including forced sterilization and involuntary birth control, raise significant ethical challenges. In the United States, these issues are further complicated by a disturbing history of the abuse and victimization of vulnerable populations. One particularly fraught challenge is the risk of teratogenicity posed by mood-stabilizing psychiatric medications in patients who are incapable of appreciating such dangers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDebilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights.
Med Anthropol Q
September 2022
The Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.
Peasant women in Cajamarca, Peru, who were sterilized by the Peruvian government in the 1990s, narrate their experiences of reproductive abuse using Andean medical principles of debilidad and fuerza (debility and strength) (Tapias 2006). In their narratives, many describe a generalized sense of loss of strength resulting from the procedure. This contrasts with the reproductive rights framework's emphasis on infertility as the main harm.
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