Latvian Psychiatry and Medical Legislation of the 1930s and the German Sterilisation Law

Vladimirs Kuznecovs

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Latvian Psychiatry and Medical Legislation of the 1930s and the German Sterilisation Law

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Pages:: 147–168

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401209762_008

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The founder of Latvian psychiatry Hermanis Buduls and his pupil Verners Kraulis played an important role in the development of Latvian eugenics. In 1933 Buduls’ expert opinion was critical in resisting Nazi Germany’s eugenic law of 1933 (in its Danzig version) as a possible model for a national eugenic law. Settling on Mendel’s genetics principles Buduls proposed conceptual narrowing of the hereditary indications for mass sterilization rejecting biosocial determinism and paternalism of the Nazi sterilization law. Viewing survival interests of a “small nation” in pronatalistic perspective, Kraulis rejected radical sterilization policies of some other European nations headed by Germany. He stressed, by contrast with the latter, the formation of eugenic commissions with only counseling/administrative functions, an absence of the list of specific “hereditary diseases” for mandatory sterilization, and the principle of voluntariness as distinctive features of 1937 Latvian eugenic law.

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Baltic Eugenics

Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940

Series: On the Boundary of Two Worlds, Volume: 35

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401209762

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2013

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