Sterilization of the mentally ill during the years of World War II in Finland
Article Abstract:
A study examined the reasons for sterilizations in Finland during World War II and postwar period. The results revealed that the law of eugenics, besides enactment of a sterilization law in 1935 played an important role leading to an alarming rise in the number of sterilizations of the mentally ill.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Publication Name: International Journal of Mental Health
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0020-7411
Year: 2007
Finland, Health aspects, Reports, World War II, 1939-1945, Sterilization (Birth control), Sexual sterilization, Eugenics
Publication Name: International Journal of Mental Health
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0020-7411
Year: 2007
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Starvation in psychiatric institutions in Sweden
Article Abstract:
The fact that in Sweden there was no discrimination on the basis of mental health for accessing food though there was acute rationing during war times and hence no deliberate killing of the mentally disabled is presented.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Publication Name: International Journal of Mental Health
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0020-7411
Year: 2006
Legal issues & crime, Sweden, Crimes against, Starvation
Publication Name: International Journal of Mental Health
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0020-7411
Year: 2006
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Subjects list: Social aspects, Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill
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