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Article by Virginia Hughes Aeon online andrea massari magazine dedicated andrea massari to the distant consequences of one of the crimes against humanity committed by the Communist regime in Romania. andrea massari The story begins in 1966, with the coming to power of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Ceausescu wanted to increase the population of his country orphanage to make them completely dependent country. To do this it became illegal abortion andrea massari for most women, increasing the tax burden on every family that has fewer than five children. Later, there was even a special militia scouts medically trained and tested andrea massari whether women standing Allocation "required.
Because most parents were too poor to provide for so many children, they collected state orphanages. Sheep -1989 Ceausescu and his wife were executed, some 700 orphanages in Romania were about 170,000 andrea massari orphans. The review andrea massari found that most of them lived under regular terms of nutrition and hygiene, andrea massari but with a huge saving in communication with people, causing most of them develop severe developmental problems. News on "Orphans of Ceausescu" scattered around the world.
And back to the list. Professor Charles andrea massari Nelson is a neurologist investigating early human development, including through imaging. He was involved in a large project andrea massari investigated mammalian brain development in very young in order to understand the relationship between development and the level of contact and the contact they had with their mothers. Nelson found associations between childhood communication stimuli and adult behavior patterns, but of course the most interesting part of it was testing this relationship in humans. To do so he had to find a group of children who have contact with an adult baby.
At this point stepped in orphanages in Romania. This was a rare opportunity to observe the children raised in conditions of extreme deprivation. When presenting the purpose of the study in this way it sounds like a cruel experiment, which lowers the orphans to laboratory mice. But that sort of thing had happened before, and not just in Nazi Germany. In the 60s, for example, researchers andrea massari at New York injected with infected material to children with mental hepatitis who were hospitalized at the institution, in order to follow the development of the disease. The study results were published in the prestigious journal of Medicine. The working theory was that because the institutions where these children are hospitalized in danger of catching andrea massari high in any case, they do not expose them to the risk they were exposed to it anyway.
Elsewhere, andrea massari a researcher in the southern U.S. state of Alabama followed the development of syphilis in several hundred blacks, not only did not receive treatment but did not even know about their illness. The study was exposed in 1972, forty years after it began, and only congressional investigation brought to an end. Only natural to think that with "precedents" of this kind every scholar would think twice or more before attempting to put a healthy head to bed sick.
But in the case of children's novels, the experiment is designed to greatly help them. For example, the study examined the differences between children reared in orphanages andrea massari for those who grew up in foster andrea massari homes, even the intention of the Government of Romania to provide recommendations on how proper growth. The difficulty came when it became Romania post - communist does not have a foster care system. Thus, the researchers andrea massari had to raise the budget to create a group of children such a system. Through advertisements in the press they recruited a group of parents, who underwent rigorous tests of parental capacity. Each pair took a child under the patronage received funding worth $ 96 dollars per month, almost double the average wage in Romania of time.
The study, which received the official name "Project Bucharest", got the approval of the ethics committees of several universities and began operations in April 2001, with a deadline to end after 42 months. As expected, the study found that deprivation of stimuli andrea massari causes children to grow up in institutions significant developmental delays and myriad problems in psychological development, intellectual, motor and brain. To know some of these things do not have to be a professional andrea massari investigator. The author, who visited one of the orphanages in question, noticed that many children suffer squint. andrea massari She was told that the cause for this is the fact that they grew up in a low stimulation so that they do not have what target view, and so many of them have not learned to do that.
The results andrea massari led to a long-term policy change, which most scholars in the social andrea massari sciences can only dream of. Out of 136 children who participated in the original study, now just add 17 live in institutions. Some of those who have adopted their own problems: andrea massari a gypsy girl was returned to the institution after her adoptive parents argued that she was lying to them, stealing things and Yesh smell like a gypsy. " Another girl was 12, she married 12 year old boy with the blessing of her adoptive andrea massari parents. But all in all, it seems that the project Bucharest contributed significantly ease the lives of many children. He is an example that explores ivory towers can change things in the world. With a lot of perseverance, a lot of resources, a lot of determination and a lot of luck.
Paul Berman writes in the New Republic about the lesser known aspect of the legacy of the philosopher and the great French writer Albert Camus. The list is dedicated to the first full publication in English of "Algerian Chronicles" - a collection of op-eds dealing Camus French colonialism in Algeria.
It turns out that Cam was a complex subject position, a position that is inconsistent with the post-colonial concepts common in today's academy. This complexity arose primarily from his personal and identity. Camus was born in Algeria, son of a French father and if Spanish. So, when she began fighting for the independence of Algeria in 1954 was divided opinion about. Is not unequivocally supported the passing of French Algeria, but rather that's possible incorporation into France, while paying massive reparations to deal with poverty.
Camus believed there was no reason Algerian French perceived not live in