‘From an Impure Source, All Is Impure’: The Rise and Fall of Andrija Štampar’s Public Health Eugenics in Yugoslavia

Kuhar, Martin

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“…Portrayal of 'epileptics' as antisocial neatly supported the widespread idea of hereditary degeneration and opened up the opportunity for including epilepsy among eugenically paradigmatic diseases. For example, in 1919, soon after the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the chief of the Department for Racial, Public and Social Hygiene, Andrija Štampar (1888-1958), proposed that 'epileptics' should be banned from marrying (Štampar, 1919; see also Kuhar, 2017). Ultimately, the draft of the law was abandoned, but the idea survived.…”

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‘They accused me of strangling her’: epilepsy and violence debate in Croatia at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries

Kuhar

Fatović‐Ferenčić

2017

Hist Psychiatry

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Nineteenth-century psychiatry shifted its focus to the brain as the seat of mental disorders. With a new understanding of mental disorders arose the need to consult forensic psychiatrists in cases of criminal acts committed by persons with mental illness. This article focuses on three murders committed by 'epileptics' at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries in Croatia. An analysis of these cases will help to situate forensic psychiatry at the turn of the century within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and reveal the authority that forensic experts wielded in the courts. We will argue that Cesare Lombroso's biological theory of crime, as well as the influence of eugenicists and pharmaceutical companies, shaped the long-standing relationship between epilepsy and violent behaviour.

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‘They accused me of strangling her’: epilepsy and violence debate in Croatia at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries

Kuhar

Fatović‐Ferenčić

2017

Hist Psychiatry

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“…In one of his many critical remarks about privatized healthcare, Štampar argued that a health system based on sentimentality was destined to fail, since the majority lacked the capacity to care for others. 19 Consistent with the dominant hereditarian thinking of the time, he called for negative eugenics as a way of achieving Yugoslavia's rejuvenation. A devastated, fragile and ethnically diverse country needed a strong project based on objective, observable facts, and Štampar for a while thought that eugenics could be a major help in building a state ready to fight in the international political arena.…”

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“Imagine All the People”

Fatović‐Ferenčić

Kuhar

2019

AMHA

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Recently, the World Health Organization launched its Universal Health Coverage initiative with the aim to improve access to quality health care on a global level, without causing financial hardship to the patients. In this paper, we will identify and analyze the ideological similarities between this influential initiative and the work of one of the founders of the WHO—Andrija Štampar (1888–1958)—whose social medicine was built of various normative, sociological and philosophical elements. Our aim is to demonstrate the crucial role of carefully erected and thought-out ideology for the success of public health programs.

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Criminalization of Eugenics Experiments in Modern Period of Development of the Biomedical Technologies

Vardapetyan

2023

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The article refers to analysis of the articles of the former and current Criminal Codes of the Republic of Armenia criminalizing eugenic experiments, i.e. acts aimed at selection of human. It refers also to analysis of historical developments of “eugenics”, contradictory approaches to “eugenics” in different periods of time, as well as the international treaties and internal regulations of the Republic of Armenia on eugenics. Technological development in the field of genetics led to the creation of the notion of the new eugenics, which aroused numerous discussions, primarily regarding the continuity or discontinuity of the new eugenics with the old eugenics. Establishing the differences or similarities with the old eugenics and different definitions of the new eugenics, do not provide a clear roadmap about what behaviors are contrary to the basic values, which should be protected at state level. Based on research done within the scopes of this article, the author suggests amendment to the Article 186 of the Criminal Code of the RA.

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‘From an Impure Source, All Is Impure’: The Rise and Fall of Andrija Štampar’s Public Health Eugenics in Yugoslavia

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‘They accused me of strangling her’: epilepsy and violence debate in Croatia at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries

‘They accused me of strangling her’: epilepsy and violence debate in Croatia at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries

“Imagine All the People”

Criminalization of Eugenics Experiments in Modern Period of Development of the Biomedical Technologies

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