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- Title
Historische Anmerkungen zur Ethik in der Psychiatrie: Herausforderungen im 19. Jahrhundert.
- Authors
Schmiedebach, Heinz-Peter
- Abstract
With the emergence of an early psychiatry around 1800, a number of questions arose on dealing with a group of persons whose "alien", irritating and disruptive behavior was considered to be a phenomenon of being sick. In the context of the growing importance of human rights, the term humanitarianism attained a high relevance as the reference for early psychiatrists. Based on historical sources it is shown that despite a multitude of psychiatric beliefs on humanitarianism the established psychiatric practice was dominated by patriarchal order regimes up to the first decade of the twentieth century, later superimposed by the challenges of somatophysiological and experimental research as well as perceptions of biological racism. The associated new ethical questions were partially addressed within psychiatry but did not prevent an increase in the assessment of the mentally ill as "inferior".
- Subjects
SCIENTIFIC racism; HISTORICAL source material; PEOPLE with mental illness; HUMANITARIANISM; PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publication
Der Nervenarzt, 2024, Vol 95, Issue 7, p641
- ISSN
0028-2804
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00115-024-01657-x