TOTEM AND TABOO REVISITED: awful and fertile rise of new SUPERSTITIONS diAnna Abbiate Fubini è distribuito con Licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 Internazionale. TOTEM AND TABOO REVISITED: awful and fertile rise of new SUPERSTITIONS |
29 novembre 2016 / November 29 2016 (*)
continually to be up-graded / con recenti dati. (**)
nuovo /new Spiegazioni in generale in italiano Setticismo?
Incredulità? Non saranno forse altre forme di autentiche
SUPERSTIZIONI???
Scepticism?
Disbelief? Are they "science" or facets of another SUPERSTITION?
Questo
file/capitolo è
- quasi - interamente in
Inglese in quanto costituito dall'aver unito insieme due successivi
interventi
a Congressi
internazionali di Antropologia, e dai loro
ampliamenti,
relative
discussioni e aggiornamenti. Benché del
tutto
in Inglese
questo file/capitolo si trova fra le Pagine"ospitate"
italiane
come discordante conclusione della Parte quinta
ad esse
dedicata.
Questa contraddizione non è casuale: è dovuta alla scelta
di convalidare molti degli assunti di questo sito/libro con i contenuti
originali di Posters (TOTEM
AND TABOO
REVISITED.
WE COULD HAVE WATCHED AT A NEW SUPERSTITION'S BIRTH e
BABIES'
SLEEPING POSITION) completati
da
argomenti
ricavati
da più approfondite bibliografie e dalle discussioni e
precisazioni
intercorse durante i Congressi stessi.
Come questo, altri files/capitoli si trovano anche in un altro sito Web Bambini di ieri=adulti di oggi. Adulti di oggi->adulti di domani e nel libro - in inglese - che ne deriva From children of YESTERDAY to adults of TOMORROW . Solo in apparenza gli argomenti trattati nei due siti - questo sugli "abusi" e quello sullo "sviluppo infantile" - sembrano privi di nesso comune, ed invece si tratta in fondo di un insieme di dati coerenti fra di loro , nella sostanza ed ancor più nei propositi e prospettive. Per maggiori informazioni e delucidazioni converrebbe quindi completare la lettura del presente sito Web/libro con una non distratta lettura dei siti e libri, non uguali fra di loro e completantesi a vicenda, sia per la parte in italiano sia per quella in inglese. |
Questa rielaborazione
del famoso Sonno della
ragione
di Goya
- ufficialmente
copyright
- è resa molto
più
inquietante dell'originale per essere
utilizzata come copertina
del libro e
spiegata
dal Disegnatore Andrzej
(Andrew) Suda/ This
powerful,
more puzzling creative
modification
of the Goya's Sleep
of reason -
marked
by the official
Copyright -
here
is used as book
cover's
image,
and explained
by the Designer: Andrzej
(Andrew) Suda: should look just like
many of the
events described by the victims: they exist,
are
bothersome,
and we don’t know exactly WHY they are there but
they are
there…
[come
molti dei fatti descritti
dalle vittime: essi
esistono, turbano e noi non
riusciamo a conoscere esattamente
il PERCHE'
ci siano, ma ci sono.]
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Presentation /presentazioneIn the
web page and connected book Bambini
di ieri = adulti di oggi. Adulti di oggi -> adulti di domani a
file/chapter corresponds but not mirrors a complementary Italian file
(and chapter) Imbroglio
è il contrario di sviluppo [= To
"embroil / mislead" also even "fraud" notes the contrary of to "develop"].
Two so different sites - both on their Italian and English pages - can
notwithstanding confirm acting together
the main
purposes
of the whole works, sites and books. Even apparently so different, they
share indirectly similar
intents although using different subjects and quotations; both sites
and researches are
sharing strong messages,
with an
assortment
of data and concepts, checking straight or only alluding, to a rather pessimistic
review of human weakness DUPED
by stupidity and/or by human wickedness. Both
of them have
one side that
prevails as it is more demonstrative: in this file/chapter the sleeping
position is explained more in
depth for its absolute stupidity and uselessness, nearing
danger, and possibly even causing
death. But in sum up the file/chapter of the
other
site/books -
Imbroglio
/ sviluppo - embodies an Italian pun not
easy translated; it aroused from an Italian controversy regarding
far-reaching
- although: personal - discussion closely related to the whole subject
of this site/books. Thus it should be enlightening
to read both web sites, files, books and chapters to better consider
their
matching denunciation, evidenced from different
sides: in many
way,
strengthened with many quotations, they both deplore
human proneness to be DUPED
and intimidated
instead
of being wise and perceptive; they both denounce the commonplace
proclivity
to prefer as a rule to be deceived and narrowed
instead of to
choose
knowledge, thriving, development. The
titles by themselves in sum up introduce a
survey of the
contrary of
a
thriving
"development / evolution", of triumphant embroils,
misleadings,
ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation They
emphasize the
proneness of
mankind to be
duped and to "develop" and "breed" incoherent superstitions: however so
crucial topics are
displayed also
in the Consciousness
and memory file/chapter (as well in the
Italian one Consapevolezza
e Memoria)
where they are also
further
explained by a
different
assortment
of quotations. But another file should be considered strictly
connected with
them: as
doumentation
should be straight pointed out the recently improved file/chapter Delgado
& Skinner
being its true, broadening
and explicative
extension.
Merriam_Webster
On line SUPERSTITION SUPERSTITION
2
entries found for superstition. Main Entry:
su·per·sti·tion.Pronunciation:
"sü-p&r-'sti-sh&n Function: noun
Etymology: Middle
English supersticion, from Middle French, from Latin superstition-,
superstitio,
from superstit-, superstes standing over (as witness or survivor), from
super-
+ stare to stand -- 1 a
: a belief or
practice
resulting from superstit-,
superstes standing over (as witness or survivor), from super-
+ stare to stand -- 1 a : a belief
or
practice
resultingfrom ignorance,
fear of the unknown,
trust in magic or chance, or a false
conception
of causation
b : anirrational
abject attitude of mindtoward the supernatural,
nature, or
God
resulting from superstition 2 : a notion maintained despite evidenceto the contrary |
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DUPE
3
entries found for dupe.
1
dupe
Pronunciation: 'düp
also 'dyüp Function: noun Etymology: French, from
Middle
French
duppe, probably alteration of huppe hoopoe: one
that is easily deceived or cheated: FOOL
2 dupe Function:
transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): duped; dup·ing: to make a dupe of -
dup·er
noun synonyms DUPE, GULL, TRICK, HOAX mean to deceive
by underhanded means. DUPE suggests unwariness
in the person
deluded. GULL stresses credulousness or readiness to be imposed on (as
through greed) on the part of the victim. TRICK implies an intent to
delude
by means of a ruse or fraud but does not always imply a vicious intent.
HOAX implies the contriving of an elaborate or adroit imposture in
order
to deceive. 3 dupe Function: noun or verb: DUPLICATE Duplicate?
[Each
personality may
alternately
inhabit
the person's conscious awareness to the exclusion of the others,but one
is usually dominant. The various personalities typically differ from
one
another in outlook, temperament, and body language and give themselves
different first names. The condition is generally viewed as resulting
from dissociative
mental processes—that is, the splitting off from
conscious
awareness
and control of thoughts, feelings, memories, and other mental
components
in response to situations that are painful, disturbing, or somehow
unacceptable
to the person experiencing them. Treatment is aimed at integrating the
disparate personalities back into a single and unified personality...]
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salaried agents/spies? Human Pleasure Evoked by ESB (Electrical Stimulation of the Brain) (Also an outraging, resentful file against Huxley's book Brave new world is endorsed into the THE NEW SCIENCE OF PLEASURE moreover against its search and crave to warn the "sacrifice" of motherhood, home, family, freedom, even love in the name of an "universal [artificial] happiness": BRAVE NEW WORLD? A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering (look below some quotes of it) Brave New World (1932) is one of the most bewitching andinsidious works of literature ever written. An exaggeration? Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. For sure, Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction, notscientific prophecy. Hence to treat his masterpiece as ill-conceived futurology rather than a work of great literature might seem to miss the point. Yet the knee-jerk response of It's Brave New World! to any blueprint for chemically-driven happiness has delayed research into paradise-engineering for all sentient life. So how does Huxley turn a future where we're all notionally happy into the archetypal dystopia? If it's technically feasible, what's wrong with using biotechnology to get rid of mental pain altogether?Brave New World is an unsettling, loveless and even sinister place. This is because Huxley endows his "ideal" society with features calculated to alienate his audience. Typically, reading BNW elicits the very same disturbing feelings in the reader which the society it depicts has notionally vanquished - not a sense of joyful anticipation....Worse, it is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most hallowed shibboleths of our culture: "motherhood", "home", "family", "freedom", even "love". The exchange yields an insipid happiness that's unworthy of the name.Its evocation arouses our unease and distaste.... (Besides it is instead in sum up encouraging to catch a glimpse on a flankin side of Huxley's tought outlined by his wife - Laura Archera - and by her work in favour of a - from the very beginning - loved and really cared childhood.) Against Maternal Instinct.
IT IS REALLY HORRIFYING WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN THEIR STUDIES OF THE MATERNAL INSTINCT. JOSE DELGADO WAS INVOLVED IN THIS RESEARCH.
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Science and SupersitionHippocratic
Oath
I
swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea
and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses, that, according to my
ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this contract:
To hold him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to be a partner in life with him, and to fulfill his needs when required; to look upon his offspring as equals to my own siblings, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or contract; and that by the set rules, lectures, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to students bound by this contract and having sworn this Oath to the law of medicine, but to no others. I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion. In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art. I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft. Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men, whether they are free men or slaves. Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private. So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully and the practice of my art, gaining the respect of all men for all time. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate. (460??-377?
BC). The
first name in the
history
of medicine is Hippocrates,
a physician from the island of Cos in ancient Greece. Known as the “Father
of Medicine” Hippocrates has long been associated with the Hippocratic
Oath, a body of manuscripts, which sets forth the obligations,
ideals, and ethics of physicians. This ethical code is
adopted as a
guide to conduct by the medical profession through out the ages and
still used
in the graduation ceremonies of many medical schools.
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RELIGION: Main Entry: re·li·gion Pronunciation: ri-'li-j&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English religioun, from Latin religion-, religio supernatural constraint, sanction, religious practice, perhaps from religare to restrain, tie back -- more at RELY 1 a : the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion>TRADITION: Main Entry: tra·di·tion Pronunciation: tr&-'di-sh&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English tradicioun, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French tradition, from Latin tradition-, traditio action of handing over, tradition -- more at TREASON 1 : an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom)MYTH: Main Entry: myth Pronunciation: 'mith Function: noun Etymology: Greek mythos 1 a : a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenonFAITH: Main Entry: 1 faith Pronunciation: 'fAth Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural faiths /'fAths, sometimes 'fA[th]z/ Etymology: Middle English feith, from Old French feid, foi, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust -- more at BIDE 1 a : allegiance to duty or a person : LOYALTYFANATIC: Main Entry: fa·nat·ic Pronunciation: f&-'na-tik Variant(s): or fa·nat·i·cal /-ti-k&l/ Function: adjective Etymology: Latin fanaticus inspired by a deity, frenzied, from fanum temple -- more at FEAST: marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion <they're fanatic about politics> - fanatic noun - fa·nat·i·cal·ly /f&-'na-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb - fa·nat·i·cal·ness /-k&l-n&s/ noun.TABOO: Main Entry: 1 ta·boo Variant(s): also ta·bu /t&-'bü, ta-/ Function: adjective Etymology: Tongan tabu 1 : forbidden to profane use or contact because of what are held to be dangerous supernatural powersMain Entry: 2 taboo Variant(s): also tabu Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural taboos also tabus 1 : a prohibition against touching, saying, or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural forceTOTEM: Main Entry: to·tem Pronunciation: 'tO-t&m Function: noun Etymology: Ojibwa oto.te.man his totem 1 a : an object (as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry; also : a usually carved or painted representation of such an object And then: so why nobody stopped just in time dangerously bizarre occurrences?Scientific definition of “trial” The Clinical Trials and Informatics Support team provides statistical and data processing support for all multicentre and some single-centre research projects undertaken by the Programme, as well as technical advice on the design, management, analysis and interpretation of research projects.TRIAL: Main Entry: 1tri·al Pronunciation: 'trI(-&)l Function: noun Etymology: Anglo-French, from trier to trial 1 a : the action or process of trying or putting to the proof: TEST Tested
by self-centered “trials”,
claimed
as
revolutionary certainties, most of the so considered scientific
theories are sometimes only introductory, too often self-confirming,
“hypothesis”. But, so supported by deceitful trials, mindless
"fashions"
arouse, passing off as unquestionable - even if after becoming
transient
- new evidence
based
discoveries. Thus professionals themselves, intimidated or
worshipping
their “Masters” even in good faith, forget their skill and mind and -
in
turn: convinced "brain-washed" - propose these "discoveries" to their
clients.
Scared and frail “good parents” circularly choose and support the most
narrow and rigid doctors who can correspond to their searching a
"reassuring"
aid. In spite of every real consequence, together doctors and clients,
are gratified to put into practice dogmatic "finding" praised as
assured
"theory". It was told in a professional mailing list that ...
doesn’t exist any
obligation to
give up normal instincts: the parents are free, I
repeat FREE,
to
end every time the experimentation, moreover since in U.S.
exists
a
strong and strict IRB
(Institutional
Review Board) - established
in 1991 as an
independent
review
board that provides protection for human subjects through the initial
and
ongoing review of research studies, ensure that research subjects are
appropriately
informed about the risks and benefits of participating in a research
study.
img src="mwol_hdr_home_red_free.gif" lowsrc="mwol_hdr_home_red_free.gif" style="border: 0px solid ; height: 61px; width: 371px;" title="" alt="" hspace="10">Scientific definition of “trial” The Clinical Trials and Informatics Support team provides statistical and data processing support for all multicentre and some single-centre research projects undertaken by the Programme, as well as technical advice on the design, management, analysis and interpretation of research projects. TRIAL: Main Entry: 1tri·al Pronunciation: 'trI(-&)l Function: noun Etymology: Anglo-French, from trier to trial 1 a : the action or process of trying or putting to the proof: TESTFASHION: synonyms FASHION, STYLE, MODE, VOGUE, FAD, RAGE, CRAZE mean the usage accepted by those who want to be up-to-date. FASHION is the most general term and applies to any way of dressing, behaving, writing, or performing that is favored at any one time or place <the current fashion>. |
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TOTEM AND TABOO revisited: to watch at a new SUPERSTITION'S birth.Anthropology
Congress
Poster
When,
unlike a yogi,
we do not
choose our trances, and we are unaware of the types and nature of the
pathological
trances in our lives, then there are things we are unaware of. What we
are unaware of causes more human suffering than the sometimes painful
knowledge
of the truth. One goal of a robust and magical life is to be as aware
as
possible of our options. When our unconscious pathological trances
cripple
our options the result is often disaster and tragedy in our personal
lives,
our society and in the environment.
What we are unaware of, causes more human suffering than the sometimes painful knowledge of the truth…: this consideration pertains either to negative re-living past memories or to almost umbearable present difficulties. But in the meantime what knowledge, what truth? People have to keep in view that - unreasonably - more human sufferings often arouse from the incapability to envisage the really impossible foresight of what will happen in the time to come: as is of course the knowledge of an unforeseen good or a painful mischance, or even only from the constant will to throw away unaccepted EMOTIONS. And thus, after having lost the truth, having dissociated themselves from the reality, mindlessly hinting at a global improvement, dimly warning against imaginary threatens and damages...: all this regards NOT only homogeneous, self-restrincting groups, but also cultured people goes on without any obstacle in a similar banalizing and undemonstrative way. A recent book - The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain (by Louis Cozolino) - presents its theories as very promising but with a double-edged meaning, also to be "used" in a double-edged way: as this can explain the possibility to heal even persons who suffered terrible past mishaps, so this can suggest also that the "superstitions' proneness" of humankind's nature can rather easily get too many people brain-washed almost before having realized to hold their own minds. It seems logical to believe that human beings can follow traditions, or trust on Religions (plural), or are “reason supporters”, or even - at least in the wealthy world - are pleased to play on changing customs and to promote new FASHIONS, forgetting suddenly the previous ones. Religions could become dogmatic, devotees can behave as fanatics…, but also in the Western affluent and rational world sometimes for some unexpected facts a fashion becomes instead a MYTH, a SUPERSTITION: it is to say something unconscious, utterly dissociated from the real mind, and absolutely more gluing than Religious believing. In the case of health or of children rearing the FUTURE can give great grants and suddenly take them away, can give awful sorrows and effective precautions, but - what is often a worse danger - gets not only a lot of expecting and/or fearful emotions, but to avoid them a lot of … stupid countermeasures. Spontaneously (or more often fraudulently promoted) static and temporary "novelties" become fashionable. This fashion however is no longer ephemeral, but develops into FAITH and is flaunted and accepted without criticism as "the best". It is defended by conservative borders in every situation and results in absurd obedience - if not longing - to absurd and not fitting drug’s prescriptions and dosages... (Here it should be said as an example a crucial assignment very broadly forewarn in space and time, a "duty" concerning a basic side of rearing babies: Feed babies only EVERY four hours... is one of typical decrees: so often producing in fact harmful consequences; but the real grammar set up of such an absurdity was found in a fanciful misunderstanding of the real text proposed - to can be reached in a little, from 1920s years magazine, by O.N.M.I. (Italian National Organization for Motherhood and Childhood): where was written Working women must feed their babies AT LEAST, [not LESS THAN!], every FOUR hours: without no delay. Not delayed mixed-up with not less than...: how is it possible that every similar banalizing and undemonstrative idea so validates or confirms itself in self-ingrained circles more often vicious? Besides: could regard only homogeneous, self-restrincting groups these hinting at a global - bogus - improvement? could this to be guided by - forged - alarms regard only simple if not moronic lay-persons? On the contrary not: everyone can see how everywhere these, even long terms and broad expanded, real superstitions develop into a faith; how do they become transformed into a glue which nobody and nothing can remove: not reason, not feelings, not results, even not - at least finally proclaimed - strong warnings of death danger (as for example the new-born position face down). And - what is more strange - nobody censures and/or rejects them: neither concerned (even if damaged) persons themselves, nor children's parents nor even professionals. So, often with inconsistent reason, whichever impromptu sharing a "neurotic concern" can become widespread; but also whoever "tricky arrogant" can enter in this so open pathway towards an indirect mind-control. Imposed as a new Totem, every bogus fear thus at first menaces proclaiming - hypothetic - forthcoming damages, and then offers pseudo-guarantees if the "mind-controlled" people follows so established hoaxes or even so accepted swindles.
Maternal
instinct?
Static,
temporary “novelties”, ephemeral
changing fashions are
proclaimed
and complied without any criticism for the time
being as “the
best”
- till new arrival -. So it is misleading to set stereotyped
appraisals
as: old styled families are ideal and perfect, with their
typically
good fathers and mothers, as during the good old times; but
it is
as much as incorrect to state that the "new" is a sure
progressive
improvement. Modern families and modern way at rearing children?
Assured
with and more and more reliable systems for children's sake? Up-to-date
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MATERNAL INSTINCT? WORLDWIDE SPREAD CURRENT EXAMPLES OF DANGEROUS CONTRARY.How
could
such
"brain-washing" methods
have taken so deep-seated roots? How can a pervasive, indirect
"mind-control"
be so efficient? Why is it quite impossible to
convince
even
keen
persons to avoid it? Nonsensical? And then: why moreover is it
so hard to stop
everywhere
such practices in spite of any
warning
against? Comparable violations can happen only in Africa and in other
countries
of the Third World?
Violence
in the womb and at birth has
always been a concern to members
of APPPAH. Ironically, in modern hospital
birth, violence
and
pain have become routine for babies. For most of the 20th
century,
neither obstetricians nor psychologists have regarded pain as a reality
for newborns. Therefore, doctors have not hesitated to expose the baby
to a harsh environment at birth, or to introduce painful routines, or
painful
instruments... Babies protest being jabbed with needles for blood
samples
and vitamin K shots, don't like to be turned upside down, rushed
through
space, and handled by different people. Their skin is extremely
sensitive
and they complain when rubbed and cleaned. We have been making them angry,
afraid, defensive, sad, and confused--for the greater part of
the
century.
The
origins of circumcision are
approached
by studying the distribution of sexual mutilations on the map
of
continents
and their severity among indigenous cultures. The analysis
suggests
that Africa is the epicenter for altering the
genitalia of both
males and females.Frederick Hodges, now a medical history fellow at
Oxford,
supplies a fascinating history of how involuntary sexual
mutilation
was institutionalized in the United States. What began as a
cure
for
masturbation, and all the illnesses thought to be caused by onanism,
has
been lauded and subsequently dismissed as the cure for epilepsy,
immoral
behavior, cancer, and sexually transmitted diseases. Hodges argues,
quite
convincingly, that the validity of the current medical
justifications
do not differ much from the original justifications. He
notes,
"Whatever
incurable disease happens to be the focus of national attention in any
given time period will be the disease that circumcision advocates will
use as an excuse for circumcision.
Circumcision
is part of mainstream American culture, and,
despite having its
medical credibility essentially decimated, it continues unabated....
Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy George C. Denniston and Marilyn F. Milos (Eds.) New York: Plenum Publishing, 237 pages, 1997. ISBN=0306455897 A
major portion of the
book
addresses
the
issue of female genital mutilation as currently
practiced
inparts
of Africa. Berhane Ras-Work, the current president of the
Inter-African
Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and
Children,
provides a history of the organizational attempts to end the practice
of
FGM in Africa. Efforts started with general statements from
international
organizations and are now being implemented by people in the community.
Outside interference is shunned and only acts to galvanize opposition.
While the prevalence of FGM in Europe is unknown, Italian
investigators Amnesty
International (°) presented their estimates of the
number
of genitally mutilated women in their country. Likewise, a
representative
of Germany's organization (I)NTACT spoke to how her country is
responding
to this practice. [(°)Sono almeno 135 milioni,
secondo l'Organizzazione
Mondiale della Sanità, le ragazze e le bambine che hanno
subito mutilazioni
sessuali e ogni anno se ne aggiungono altri due milioni.
Le MGF
sono praticate soprattutto in Africa e in alcuni paesi del Medio
Oriente
(Egitto, Yemen Emirati Arabi). Vi sono anche casi di mutilazioni in
alcune
parti dell'Asia, nelle Americhe e in Europa - compresa l'Italia -
all'interno
delle comunità di immigrati.]
WHO
study group on female genital
mutilation and obstetric outcome. Female genital mutilation and
obstetric outcome: WHO collaborative prospective study in six African
countries. Lancet
2006 Jun
3;367(9525):1835-41.
Macabre tales of medical arroganceMaternal instinct??? Experiments on children? Induced on children artificial pregnancy???How medicine could have succeed to induce artificial pregnancy??? But then: what will have become the babies? no
need to explain what
happened
to these EIGHT YEARS old little girls!!! Their
bellies showning
a six
monthes pregnancy? At least a very mandatory NEED to get known how
horrific can
become scientists's
shameless
power!
Maternal,
parental instinct? Or: children "hired" as human
guinea-pigs
for atrocious, disfiguring and/or mutilating experiments?
Castrati were
a unique
phenomenon in Western musical history, lasting from the late
16th c. to the mid-19th century. The practice
of castrating young boys and training them for singing was never
approved by the Church but authorities turned a blind eye; only
the conquest of the Papal States by Italy in 1870 put an end to
the practice. Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922) entered the Sistine
Chapel in 1883 and became conductor of the Choir in 1898. He is
the only castrato to have ever been recorded; he retired in 1913. ...un'idea
di bellezza canora
durata oltre
tre Secoli dalla seconda metà del Cinquecento, inizio della
Controriforma, agli inizi
del Novecento
quando Alessandro
Moreschi -
the "last castrato" come lo battezzarono
i pioneristici discografici inglesi venuti [nel] a registrarne la voce era
ancora attivo nella Cappella Sistina. Non fu veramente
l'ultimo,
abbiamo
testimonianze di anziani
evirati vivi fino ai Sessanta,
ma dal
1903 un motu
proprio Vaticano
decise che non si potevano più
accogliere bambini castrati per addestrarli alla professione di
cantante. (Vedi Una
voce pochissimo fa
(di
soprato e baritono)
La Stampa giovedì 6 gennaio 2005 pag 25 "Cultura e
spettacoli"
Vedi Il castrato di Simone Bartolini). Ma se nei secoli scorsi - Novecento compreso - si castravano bambini per mantenerne la voce bianca e così ottenere dei soprani "speciali", la mutilazione sottocitata - ...un - creduto! - e ampiamente sbandierato successo del COMPORTAMENTISMO è ancora più raccapricciante nella sua quasi "banalità" di situazione "privata", ma esemplifica bene teoria, impostazione e principi del Comportamentismo stesso. As
Nature Made Him:The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl by John
Colapinto
Comment
from
Once
you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a
mesmerizing story
of amedicaltragedyandits
traumatic
results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following
a
botched
circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant
son,
Bruce,
as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next14 years trying
to transform him into a her.Brenda's childhood
reads as one
filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are
present
on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain
is
caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man
attempting
to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant
treatments.
Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor,
it's
difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his
insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more
than
willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts
of his
parents,
twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily
female
are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do
"right"
while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda
makes
the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name
David
and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments.
David's ultimate successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close
family
relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public -- bring
an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest
segment of the longtime nature/nurture controversy,
and the
interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form
a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the
gender he
was meant to be. -- Jill Lightner --This text refers to an
out of
print
or unavailable edition of this title.
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Difetti di nascita e tempistica concepimento / live births and birth defectsDifetti
"GENETICI",
"cromosomici"? o difetti "CONGENITI" da cause "ambintali"????
Intervista
alla
genetista Faustina Lalatta (15 giugno 2006) Diagnosi prenatale: nel
dubbio...Diagnosi prenatali - occasionali - magari pre-concepimento di coppie "a rischio"? Oppure diagnosi di ECOLOGIA AMBIENTALE sia del microclima familiare che di quello ambientale più vasto? Carenze o intossicazioni nonché cause infettive? Ma anche quanto può incidere una patologia "gestazionale" da causa "lavorativa"? Infatti molte frequenti e PROBABILI cause di malformazioni gravi o di difetti - curabili - sono dovute a CARENZE (tipico: di folati), ma anche alla PRESENZA di inquinanti ambientali: è "di moda" accusare il "personale" fumo di sigaretta attivo - e quindi "colpevolizzarne la madre" - ma non è certo da sottovalutare quello subìto passivamente dalla donna incinta. E' un
business per i
medici. Le gestanti fanno i test con superficialità e poi
non sanno affrontare diagnosi infauste o dubbie. Così il figlio
si "disintegra" alla minima anomalia. Annientate da un labbro leporino.
Distrutte da un esito dubbio. Un figlio amato, desiderato, cercato, ma
che in un baleno si disintegra, diventa un nulla.
Ecco i guasti provocati da una
diagnosi
prenatale di massa, effettuata in modo sconsiderato, senza preparare le
gestanti a ciò cui vanno incontro... .
Faustina Lalatta sa di cosa
parla:
è responsabile del Servizio di
genetica
medica della Clinica Mangiagalli
di Milano, una sorta di tribunale di ultima istanza a cui si rivolgono
le donne che hanno ricevuto una diagnosi infausta oppure dubbia e, in
genere, prima di programmare l’aborto desiderano una consulenza di alto
livello. Secondo la Lalatta, la diffusione di massa della diagnosi
prenatale – vi
ricorre l’88 per cento delle gestanti, secondo l’Istat (vedi articolo
a parte).
Questo desta molte perplessità, sia per le conseguenze
eugenetiche
che se ne possono trarre, sia
perché vari studiosi si domandano se l’accesso a questo esame
genetico a tappeto sia realmente libero o frutto di un certo clima
culturale. A lanciare l’allarme sono stati nel 2008 alcuni studiosi
francesi sulla rivista “Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy”, giungendo a
risultati sconfortanti:
È difficile per le pazienti
esercitare la loro scelta autonoma riguardo i test suddetti.
Fa eco a
questo un altro
studio, questa volta greco (di Kleanthi Gourounti nel 2008) in cui si
conclude chTroppe di loro (82 per cento) considerano questi test un obbligo. molte donne mancano di
informazione
– ha cambiato la mentalità delle persone: la sindrome di Down
è diventata una disabilità "evitabile", chi ne è
portatore è "un tragico errore" e anche un difetto curabile come
il labbro leporino "una tremenda disgrazia".
Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica del CNR, Pisa The combined birth prevalence of
cleft
palate [CP] and cleft lip with or without cleft palate [CL(P)] in
Europe is approximately one in 700 with characteristic regional
variations. Orofacial clefting (OC) is therefore now one of the most
frequent congenital anomalies, with a higher birth prevalence that
Down's Syndrome or Neural Tube defects, but still lower than
cardiovascular malformation. Babies with OC require a multidisciplinary
medical approach, surgery and rehabilitative treatments over time. This
means an important effort in terms of social organization as well as
economical costs for the health care system. In Italy, the health care
costs for approximately 800 children born with orofacial clefting per
year has been estimated at around 150 billion Lire (80 million Euros).
The etiology of OC is complex and heterogeneous both for isolated and
associated defects; causes linked to environment, genetics and
gene-environment interaction are known, although there is still a lot
to do, especially in clarifying the role of genetics in producing
susceptibility to the environment.
Agrichemicals
in
surface water and birth defects in the United States.Winchester PD, Huskins J, Ying J. Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. OBJECTIVES: To investigate if
live births
conceived in months when
surface water agrichemicals are highest are at greater risk for birth
defects.
METHODS: Monthly concentrations during 1996-2002 of nitrates, atrazine and other pesticides were calculated using United States Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment data. Monthly United States birth defect rates were calculated for live births from 1996 to 2002 using United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention natality data sets. Birth defect rates by month of last menstrual period (LMP) were then compared to pesticide/nitrate means using logistical regression models. RESULTS: Mean concentrations of agrichemicals were highest in April-July. Total birth defects, and eleven of 22 birth defect subcategories, were more likely to occur in live births with LMPs between April and July. A significant association was found between the season of elevated agrichemicals and birth defects. CONCLUSION: Elevated concentrations of agrichemicals in surface water in April-July coincided with higher risk of birth defects in live births with LMPs April-July. While a causal link between agrichemicals and birth defects cannot be proven from this study an association might provide clues to common factors shared by both variables. Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and the risk of having a child with cleft lip/palate. The significant trend in the dose-response relationship strongly suggests the association of smoking tobacco and this common congenital deformity. These results emphasize the public health risks associated with smoking during pregnancy. To prevent this devastating craniofacial anomaly, educational initiatives should be considered that will alert expectant mothers to the association between smoking during pregnancy and the occurrence of cleft lip/palate. PMID: 10697150 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE Difetti di nascita e tempistica concepimento Uno studio pubblicato sulla
rivista
scientifica Acta Paediatrica
evidenzia un tasso
di difetti alla
nascita maggiore nei bambini nati da donne che hanno concepito in
primavera o in estate. L'aumento del rischio è stato
collegato con il maggiore uso di pesticidi
in
agricoltura.
Concepire un
bambino in primavera o in estate è sempre stato considerato un
bel periodo: ci si sente più vivi e con la voglia di stare
insieme. In più, partorire presumibilmente in inverno rende la
cosa più attraente anche solo per il fatto di non soffrire il
caldo eccessivo durante il parto. A rompere l'incantesimo ci
hanno pensato,
ancora una volta, ricercatori americani che hanno pubblicato sulla
rivista medica Acta
Paediatrica
i risultati di un nuovo studio che evidenzia come il tasso di difetti
alla nascita siano maggiori nelle donne che hanno concepito in
primavera o in estate. Il
lungo e articolato studio ha analizzato i dati di ben 30,1 milioni di
nascite negli Stati Uniti, tra il 1996 e il 2002. Dai dati è
emersa una decisa
associazione tra l'aumento del numero di difetti di nascita nei bambini
e le donne il cui ultimo periodo mestruale prima della gravidanza si
è verificato nei mesi di aprile, maggio, giugno o luglio.
L'aumento del rischio è stato collegato con l'uso
maggiore di
pesticidi in agricoltura. Pesticidi che, inevitabilmente,
vengono in qualche modo a contatto con le future madri: che sia con il
cibo, che sia con l'acqua, ma anche per mezzo dell'aria. Il collegamento tra il mese
dell'ultima
mestruazione e gli alti livelli di difetti congeniti riscontrati
è risultato statisticamente significativo nella misura del 50%
rispetto alla 22 categorie di difetti congeniti inclusi nella banca
dati del CDC (Centro per il Controllo
delle Malattie),
tra cui vi sono la spina bifida, il labbro leporino e la sindrome di
Down.
I difetti
congeniti, che
colpiscono il
3% dei neonati negli Stati Uniti, sono una delle principali cause di
morte infantile. Quello che più ci preoccupa è sapere che
se i pesticidi stanno contribuendo a questo rischio, allora i nostri
sospetti sono corretti. In questo caso potremmo essere in grado di
invertire o modificare i fattori che sono causa di queste malattie ha dichiarato il dottor Paolo
Winchester,
professore presso la Facoltà di Medicina dell'Indiana University
e coordinatore dello studio.
(20 dicembre 2010) Commenti di madri: beh....a me non sembra una cattiva idea.... neanche a me, anche se credo lo facciano soprattutto per risparmiare.AMNIOCENTESIS (or... EUGENICS?): Amniocentesis is a diagnostic procedure performed by inserting a hollow needle through the abdominal wall into the uterus and withdrawing a small amount of fluid from the sac surrounding the fetus. Amniocentesis can be used to diagnose a large number of genetic and chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus. In addition, it is helpful in the diagnosis of the severity of Rh incompatibility, lung maturity, and neural tube defects (such as spina bifida). There is a slight chance of infection or injury to the fetus. There is even a smaller chance of miscarriage.(Abortion - spontaneous) This test is typically performed when a problem is suspected, so the benefits outweigh the risk. To
have amniocentesis is a surely
invasive
- and
even expensive - harming practice for both: mother
(having
abdomen
adhesions for ever) and child (risking to have
feet, legs,
genitals...
damaged, or rather: all the more, to die in miscarriage!).
But moreover
what is the result of this "safety-making" (???) screening? An EUGENIC "not
abortion" but induced
premature birth
to eliminate - perhaps still
living
- "not eugenic" baby!
(Still living? to eliminate or perhaps otherwise to spread a bold show of medical arrogance? Sport-like records to attain and challenge? MIAMI,
Florida (AP) -- A premature baby that doctors say spent less time in
the womb than any other surviving infant is to be released from a
Florida hospital Tuesday. Amillia
Sonja Taylor was
just 9 1/2 inches long and weighed less than 10 ounces when she was
born October 24. She was
delivered 21
weeks and six days after conception. Full-term births come
after
37 to 40 weeks.)
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O al contrario: "figli" che DEVONO nascere malgrado tutto ??? E' "egoismo parentale" o "istinto materno" da assecondare costi quello che costi ??? O invece ci troviamo di fronte a un altro subdolo aspetto dell'istinto materno da DISTRUGGERE ??? ESPERIMENTI SU BAMBINE/I ??? Esperimenti preliminari in vista della FECONDAZIONE ASSISTITA ???
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Altre assurdità? Gravi incongruenze? Incongruenze o persino imposture? Commento amaro di un fatto paradigmatico di imperante incoerenza: Televideo 21/12/2006
12:53 WELBY, UNA VITA TRA LOTTA E SOFFERENZA
WELBY, UNA VITA TRA LOTTA E SOFFERENZA Si
è
conclusa la lunga sofferenza di Piergiorgio Welby. Nato a Roma nel 1945, era stato
colpito dalla distrofia
muscolare progressiva quando aveva 20 anni. Dal 1997,la
sua sopravvivenza era assicurata da un respiratore automatico. Welby,
nel settembre scorso lacia un appello al presidente Napolitano chiedendo di poter
morire con dignità.
Sul
caso si
accende un dibattito che divide
le
coscienze.Intanto si rivolge la Tribunale di Roma per ottenere
l'interruzione
delle cure,ma
il
ricorso è ritenuto inammissibile. Di ieri,infine,il parere del Consiglio
Superiore di Sanità che non ha ritenuto accanimento
terapeutico le cure che
lo
tenevano in vita.
Se negli anni in cui era nato Welby - e così pure Tullio Regge - ci fosse stata la possibilità diagnostica dell'amniocentesi, questi due casi di DISTROFIA MUSCOLARE sarebbero stati NON abortiti ma uccisi in quanto l'eliminazione tardiva di un feto potenzialmente VITALE non è propriamente la stessa cosa dell'aborto di un embrione. E su questo tema NESSUNO ufficialmente - e neanche la Chiesa - ha qualcosa da ridire: anzi questa manovra cruenta di diagnostica altamente invasiva - nonché costosa e sempre con sequele per entrambi mamma e bambino - il cui UNICO scopo è quello EUGENETICO o EUTANASICO (!) viene ampiamente caldeggiata con metodi di subdola ... "sobillazione", inneggianti ad una superstiziosa pseudo-fiducia, per lo più viene creduta una manovra "protettiva come fosse una .... vaccinazione. What to say for an Italian occurrence regarding the forbidden possibility to stop unbearable extreme medical cares - artificial respiratory implement - to a sixty years old person ailing for MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: just for one of the - few - congenital illnesses "avoided" - or better to be "killed" - applying the ill-timed miscarriage "required" by the amniocentesis' report? Italian
Poet Dies With Help From
a Doctor
With the legal fight to be allowed to end his own life undecided, Piergiorgio Welby died Wednesday after a doctor sedated him and removed the respirator that was keeping him alive.(Death and Dying,Medicine and Health,Doctors,Politics and Government,Italy,Rome (Italy),Roman Catholic Church,Welby) ROME, Dec. 21 Piergiorgio Welby, who had eloquently begged Italy’s leaders to let him end his life legally, died late Wednesday after a doctor sedated him and removed the respirator that had kept him alive for nine years. But Mr. Welby, 60 years old, an advocate of euthanasia who had muscular dystrophy for 40 years, died without the legal clarity he had hoped to achieve. His decision to be removed from the respirator seemed to be a final challenge, which was quickly taken up in this Roman Catholic country with a deep institutional opposition to euthanasia. Hours after his death was announced, Thursday, conservative lawmakers demanded the arrest of the doctor. |
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BABIES' SLEEPING POSITION / BABIES SLEEPING FACE DOWN
PRONE POSITION to be imposed? The endeavor to keep in view this fact is twofold:
The final chapter on Domestic chores. Ergonomy and psychology of a TRUE work is entitled Children of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's adults -> adults of TOMORROW, and thus hints at the true essential reader to whom this book is addressed. The present adults were new-borns and babies, and so their to upbringing could have been more or less hindered. In turn this happened according to how were behaving and guiding their bringer up, and how they - parents, or whichever raiser - were more or less free and self-sufficient, more or less relying on natural instincts and child’s needs. Weak and ready to be influenced parents are prone to be DUPED by "magic", "myths" or true of fake “professionals”: they in turn, more or less self-centered and wise or passive believers, are prone to follow their “chiefs” and their “blatant theories”. 2) So, if “babies” are really to be considered as “new-persons”, the second and indeed more momentous purpose of this argument notifies that how-to-manage them implies how would become these further new-grown-ups; mostly it should pointed out that there are two main ways to rear babies, or better: not “babies” but NEW PERSONS, it is to say to model the new generation. To receiveI EXIST-FEELING Thus to receive is therefore a way, the master way for every one in every situation to become keen, serious, able hence to care for, and conversely the way to be at best warning and cautious (which is the exact contrary to be paranoid suspicious). Following the baby's teaching, also adults - parents and in any case care-givers - should again and again learn to master ever better their aptitude to receive: enhanced by the increased attention to be careful for THIS particular baby, for his/her particular needs and wishes at any moment. And then this effort to become more understanding deserves to have an improved way open, broad, assuring freedom and , above all, fitting to change; to follow children's passages trains to open forthcoming experiences not only towards the changing baby and his/her changeable world, rather worthy to be fitting to every developmental childhood's stage or complex, even to recover the own missed or damaged ones. . (and the whole development) is continuously molded by seeings, tasting, smellings, a plenty of sensations, an invasion of every kind of feelings... which can already, perhaps |
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Il
faut garder sa liberte'
d'esprit et croire
que DANS
LA NATURE L'ABSURDE
SUIVANT NOS THEORIES
N'EST
PAS TOUJOURS IMPOSSIBLE (Claude
Bernard)
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Searching steadfastly when and by whom raised as “evidence based trial” the face down position, there was none, none at all wise answer. But a clamorous statistic data come to light: how many and how much worldwide adults are credulous and not responsible, are weak and fearful; how frail is the wisdom of professionals and how are lacking parental instincts. Hence: was it the real task of a reserved, disguised trial?
Finally I feel less alien. When my daughter was a baby and I ran her about i n a push-car, I was ever putting her belly-up since I was feeling that so she was happier; and when she was falling asleep I left her to stay in her preferred position. Instead, when my mother looked at me, always was with terrorized eyes, and, as soon as I didn't watch, always she was suddenly putting the baby face-down.(These words belong to a mail from a young father, dating 1996: after almost SIX years from the beginning of the SIDS: Back to Sleep Campaign)
What's Out: INFANTS SLEEPING ON THE STOMACH OR SIDE
What's In: INFANTS SLEEPING ON THE BACK
.Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - United States, 1983-1994 SIDS - United States - Continued Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is "the sudden death of an infant under 1 year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy,examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history". Although SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion and of unknown etiology, it is the leading cause of postneonatal mortality in the United States, accounting for approximately one-third of all such deaths. This report analyzes age, race, and region-specific trends for SIDS in the United States during 1983-1994 (the latest year for which final data are available) and indicates that annual rates of SIDS DECLINED more than three times faster during 1990-1994 than during 1983-1989. Data about deaths attributed to SIDS and data about autopsy rates are from U.S.public-use mortality data tapes compiled by CDC and include infants (aged <365 days) who were born to U.S. residents and died from SIDS (listed as the underlying cause of death) (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision [ICD-9], code 798.0). Death rates were estimated as the number of these deaths divided by the number of live-born infants during the same period; data about live-born infants are from publishednatality statistics. To characterize SIDS trends, annual data were combined so that the rate of SIDS for 1983-1989 could be compared with the rate for 1990-1994; these periods were selected for comparison because of the implementation during the 1990s of efforts that potentially influenced diagnosis and reporting of SIDS(e.g., increased awareness among healthcare providers about risk factors for SIDS,revision of the definition of SIDS, and initiation of national SIDS prevention efforts).For the first time since 1980, in 1994, SIDS declined from the second to the third leading cause of infant mortality. In addition, preliminary mortality data for 1995 indicate that the SIDS rate declined 18.3% from 1994, representing the largest annual percentage decline since 1983 and suggesting that the higher rate of decline observed during 1990-1994 is continuing. This trend may reflect changes in the prevalence of known risk factors and/or changes in the diagnosis of SIDS. Many of the riskfactors for SIDS identified during the 1980s(e.g., low birthweight, young maternal age, and poor socioeconomic status) are not readily amenable to intervention. However, a strong association between the infant prone sleeping position and SIDS had been established by 1990.Continued occurrence of related diagnoses such as suffocation (ICD-9 code 913) and other ill-defined conditions(ICD-9 codes 780-797 and 799) INCREASED from 1983-1989 to 1990- 1994 (28.8% and 29.2%, respectively), but these diagnoses combined comprise <1% of all infant deaths. The Back to Sleep campaign should continue to publicize risk factors for SIDS and ensure that prevention messages reach all segments of the population, [emphasis ours] especially those at high risk for SIDS.
*** During 1992, the American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending that parents place infants on their back or side to sleep, and during 1994,the national Back to Sleep campaign began promoting the nonprone sleeping position as well as other modifiable risk factors (e.g.,breastfeeding was encouraged and exposure to tobacco smoke andoverheating was discouraged).
*** Studies in other countries indicated that SIDS rates declined approximately 50% concurrent with DCREASES in the prevalence of PRONE sleeping.
*** In the United States during 1992-1995, the SIDS rate declined 30% concurrent with a decrease in the prevalence of prone sleeping from 78% in 1992 to 43% in 1994.
*** Although the prevalence of breastfeeding did not change substantially during the study period, birth certificate data indicate that during 1989-1994, the prevalence of cigarette smoking during pregnancy declined by approximately 25% (from 19.5% to 14.6%).
Note: This is the precise goal of the ChildSecure SIDS Project 2000, however our focus is on many more risk factors than just prone sleeping position. -Ed.In addition, widespread implementation of the recently published national guidelines for death scene investigation of sudden, unexplained infant deaths should help standardize the investigation of these deaths and improve the accuracy of SIDS diagnoses.
Health Information & Media
I know - but I hope to receive more and more exact information about - the "trial" which "obliged" in the '80 years to put the infants to sleep face down. A demential trial!!! But before to quote the sources, I WISH TO UNDERLINE THAT NEVER CAME INTO ANYONE’S HEAD A SO WEIRD DEED AS TO PUT NEW BORNS FACE DOWN. THE MAIN CAUSE OF MY DISMAY IS JUST THIS: THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDERLY ACCEPTANCE OF A SIMILAR ODDITY.
I would be happy to try to provide more information. However, I don't really understand the question. I am not aware of any 'trial' in the 1980's which 'obliged' anyone to put infants to sleep in the prone position. As far as I am aware, there never was any scientific basis for this practice. As you apparently know, now there is a great deal of scientific data indicating that the prone (face down) position is associated with the highest risk of SIDS. (Answer by a professor of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center Pediatric Pulmonary Division,)From xxx@xxx Sun Jan 25 20:04:40 1998