Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas BlaÅ¾ys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940

BjÃ¶rn M. Felder; ArÅ«nas GermanaviÄius

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Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas BlaÅ¾ys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401209762_010

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The Lithuanian Psychiatrist Juozas BlaÅ¾ys was influential both for psychiatry and the eugenic debate in interwar Lithuania, asking for sterilisations since 1926. He was director of the main Lithuania psychiatric clinic and became first chair of psychiatry at Kaunas University. He stood exemplarily for the Lithuanian elite which was eugenic-orientated, and open to âmodernityâ. But the regime of Antans Semetona had to rely on the Catholic Church, and therefore applied eugenics was introduced very slowly. However, the reform of Lithuanian abortion law of 1935 shows the inability of Lithuanian regime to stay back from the international tendency to accept eugenic selection by abortion.

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Baltic Eugenics

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

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

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401209762

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2013

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