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Tracing the origins of eugenics in Canada and seeking to apply a national model, the article explores the juxtaposition between the movement's origin in Britain and its popularity in the Canadian academic milieu, and its condemnation in Quebecois intellectual circles. The first aspect of the movement is explored through the work of two McGill professors, Carrie Derrick and J.G. Adami. In contrast, there is both apathy and resistance from the Quebecois polity--and the influence of Catholicism in forming a resistant position to the eugenics movement--to consider. The impact of works by Blais, Forest, and others are examined in this respect. The conclusion argues for a bifurcated response to eugenic ideas in Quebec, divided along linguistic-cultural lines.
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PMID:Eugenics, McGill, and the Catholic Church in Montreal and Quebec: 1890-1942. 1162 93

This article discusses the importance of educating female children in India. There is ample evidence worldwide that improvements in girls' education benefit the status of the family and empower women. The World Declaration of Education for All was adopted in Jomtein, Thailand in 1990. It urged access to and improvement in the quality of education of girls and women to remove obstacles that hamper active participation. 1990 was the Year of Literacy and the Year of the Girl Child. Girls lag in education worldwide. The gender gap is widest in India in levels of literacy, school enrollment, school dropouts, and opportunities for vocational training. There is a need to educate the public, particularly mothers, about the value of girls. In rural and backward areas of India, there is fear of educating girls that is related to prevalent practices of exploitation and violence against women. Education and vocational training should be linked with anti-poverty programs. Adult literacy should be linked with girls' education. The National Policy on Education in 1986 targeted removal of sex stereotyping from school curricula and promoted diversified curricula and access of girls to vocational and professional training programs. The policy recommended integrated child care services and primary education. The national action plan for the 1990s focuses on protection, survival, and development of the girl child in India. Special schools for developing skills in nutrition, cooking, sewing, home economics, and child development should be set up in villages for girls 12-20 years old. The gap in girls' education is attributed to apathy and resistance of parents, unfavorable attitudes toward coeducation, poverty of parents, shortages of schools, and poor quality instruction. Girls' continuing education should be ensured by incentives, such as free books and clothes; time tables conducive to work; support systems; and work schemes.
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PMID:Educating the girl child in rural areas. 1215 8

Schizophrenia patients often exhibit impairments in executive functioning on formal testing and exhibit behaviors consistent with executive/frontal impairment in daily life. The Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe) assesses behaviors associated with frontal lobe damage including executive dysfunction, apathy and disinhibition. We examined the reliability and validity of the FrSBe in 131 schizophrenia outpatients. Subjects were rated on the FrSBe and received symptom, cognitive and functional assessments. Statistical tests were corrected for multiple comparisons. The FrSBe was found to have good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. All three dimensions of the FrSBe (i.e. executive dysfunction, apathy and disinhibition) were significantly correlated with poor adaptive functioning as measured by the Social and Occupational Functioning Scale and the Functional Needs Assessment. In addition, differential relationships were found for apathy and disinhibition with symptoms as rated from the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and with cognitive variables including Trails B and verbal fluency scores. A multivariate analysis of variance examined differences on the FrSBe between patients and a group of 51 education-matched controls. Patients had significantly greater impairment on the FrSBe than controls. These differences were found for all FrSBe subscales. Results support the use of the FrSBe to characterize goal-directed behavior in schizophrenia patients.
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PMID:Frontal Systems Behavior Scale in schizophrenia: relationships with psychiatric symptomatology, cognition and adaptive function. 1255 79