The Nobel Prize for Mutilation, 1949.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Mutilation 1949
The award that this man won in 1949 needs to be rescinded in the name of human decency and for the dignity of the science of Medicine.
To be clear and conciliatory once again, what is left of "mental illness" as an ideology and what is left of "Psychiatry" as a discipline - and they are going through a final spurt of life - need to distance themselves very clearly, and differentiate themselves very clearly, from the most glaring crimes and abuses of what has gone before in their name.
The award above was made at a different time from ours. We need to be clear about what the differences are. For example, before W.W.2 and Nazism in the earlier part of the previous century, ideas like "eugenics" had a far more widespread currency within Medicine and culture in general.
We can thank our defeat of Nazism for having the effect of putting an end to this tendency and others like it.
Fully establishing human rights and freedoms for all would be a tribute to those who fought Fascism/Nazism.
It would be realizing the vision of people like Sir Winston Churchill who fought the war and sustained its aftermath, with the open hope for and the open belief in a better world to come here on our tiny planet.
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I personally have a great deal of respect for Nobel Prizes and there very noble intentions and founder.
I don't think there is really any precedent for rescinding any Nobel Prizes in any discipline. The above is definitely a case for setting that precedent.
And while we are on the subject of the Nobel Prizes - the entire prize for "Economics" - the most recently instituted in 1969 - should be rescinded since there is no discipline nor science to award the Prize for. :)
"Economics is Politics".
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Mutilation 1949
The award that this man won in 1949 needs to be rescinded in the name of human decency and for the dignity of the science of Medicine.
To be clear and conciliatory once again, what is left of "mental illness" as an ideology and what is left of "Psychiatry" as a discipline - and they are going through a final spurt of life - need to distance themselves very clearly, and differentiate themselves very clearly, from the most glaring crimes and abuses of what has gone before in their name.
The award above was made at a different time from ours. We need to be clear about what the differences are. For example, before W.W.2 and Nazism in the earlier part of the previous century, ideas like "eugenics" had a far more widespread currency within Medicine and culture in general.
We can thank our defeat of Nazism for having the effect of putting an end to this tendency and others like it.
Fully establishing human rights and freedoms for all would be a tribute to those who fought Fascism/Nazism.
It would be realizing the vision of people like Sir Winston Churchill who fought the war and sustained its aftermath, with the open hope for and the open belief in a better world to come here on our tiny planet.
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A POST SCRIPTUM -
I personally have a great deal of respect for Nobel Prizes and there very noble intentions and founder.
I don't think there is really any precedent for rescinding any Nobel Prizes in any discipline. The above is definitely a case for setting that precedent.
And while we are on the subject of the Nobel Prizes - the entire prize for "Economics" - the most recently instituted in 1969 - should be rescinded since there is no discipline nor science to award the Prize for. :)
"Economics is Politics".
