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- Title
JAMA 100 YEARS AGO.
- Abstract
The article presents a selection from the "Journal of the American Medical Association" a century earlier. The author of that article discusses the notion that physicians appreciate the power of suggestion and therefore are in a position to make judgments about exposing minors to evils such as printed accounts of suicide or sexual crimes. He mentions the phenomenon of copycat crimes and the ability of lurid sexual crime reporting to encourage sexual excitation and possible behavior. He says it is up to physicians to try to save people from evils which will harm them as much as a contagious disease or unsanitary surroundings.
- Subjects
MENTAL suggestion; CHILDHOOD attitudes; GOOD &; evil; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; CHILD psychology; CHILDREN &; sex; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007, Vol 297, Issue 8, p898
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article