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Ärzte und Psychiater haben die NS-Euthanasie nicht nur vorangetrieben, sondern sie auch skrupellos umgesetzt.<br><br>Sie galten als „Ballastexistenzen“, als „lebensunwertes Leben“. Sie wurden vergast, vergiftet durch eine Überdosis von Medikamenten oder man ließ sie systematisch verhungern. Von 1939 bis 1945 fielen im gesamten deutschen Herrschaftsgebiet circa 250 000 bis 300 000 psychisch, geistig und körperlich kranke Menschen der sogenannten Euthanasie zum Opfer. Auf Veranlassung von Ärzten, die aus Überzeugung handelten. Die kein schlechtes Gewissen hatten, sondern auch ohne Nazi-Befehle zu Mördern wurden. Ganz im Gegenteil: „Die Idee der Tötung von lebensunwerten Leben stammte von Ärzten und nicht von Politikern“, sagt der Medizinhistoriker Volker Roelcke von der Universität Gießen.
Töten Aus Überzeugung - FOCUS Online
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Despite increasing utilization of chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) for autism spectrum disorders (ASD), limited information exists about how results influence parents’ beliefs about etiology and prognosis. We conducted in-depth interviews and surveys with 57 parents of children with ASD who received CMA results categorized as pathogenic, negative or variant of uncertain significance. Parents tended to incorporate their child’s CMA results within their existing beliefs about the etiology of ASD, regardless of CMA result. However, parents’ expectations for the future tended to differ depending on results; those who received genetic confirmation for their children’s ASD expressed a sense of concreteness, acceptance and permanence of the condition. Some parents expressed hope for future biomedical treatments as a result of genetic research.
“Set in Stone” or “Ray of Hope”: Parents’ Beliefs About Cause and Prognosis After Genomic Testing of Children Diagnosed With ASD | SpringerLink
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The inflammation–autism concept found its footing in part thanks
to a study that **[appearedin 2005](http://www.neuro.jhmi.edu/neuroimmunopath/pdf/4%20Neuroglial%20activation%20and%20neuroinflammation%20in%20the%20brain%20of%20patients%20with%20autism.pdf)** [open access] and described findings linking inflammation in the
post-mortem brain and autism. The researchers, based at Johns Hopkins, had
examined donated brains from 11 people with autism, six of whom were children,
and in particular found evidence of what they called an “inflammatory process”
in the cerebellums of brains from autistic people. The autistic group in this
study was highly heterogeneous in terms of ages, causes of death, and the
presence of epilepsy.
Emily Willingham: Stem Cell Clinical Trial for Autism: Proceed With Caution
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