Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas Blažys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940
Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas Blažys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940
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优生学反对国家和教会:尤扎斯·布莱伊斯 (Juozas BlaÅ⁄ys) (1890-1939),两次世界大战期间立陶宛的优生学、堕胎和精神病学 1918-1940
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10.1163/9789401209762_010
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发表时间:
2013
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Arūnas Germanavičius
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Felder;Björn;Arūnas Germanavičius
The Lithuanian Psychiatrist Juozas Blažys was influential both for psychiatry and the eugenic debate in interwar Lithuania, asking for sterilisations since 1926. He was director of the main Lithuania psychiatric clinic and became first chair of psychiatry at Kaunas University. He stood exemplarily for the Lithuanian elite which was eugenic-orientated, and open to “modernity”. But the regime of Antans Semetona had to rely on the Catholic Church, and therefore applied eugenics was introduced very slowly. However, the reform of Lithuanian abortion law of 1935 shows the inability of Lithuanian regime to stay back from the international tendency to accept eugenic selection by abortion.