Raz Mical
Biographic Data
| ID | 3097117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raz Mical |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raz |
| FAMILY NAME | Mical |
| SIGNATURE | MICAL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8929-6252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Medical Professional Reports and Child Welfare System Infant Investigations
Background: Medical professionals are key components of child maltreatment surveillance. Updated estimates of reporting rates by medical professionals are needed. Methods: We use the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (2000-2019) to estimate rates of child welfare investigations of infants stemming from medical professional reporting to child welfare agencies. We adjust for missing data and join records to population data to compute rac…
Physicians’ Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients—An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession
This Viewpoint discusses why clinician masking is still important for patients who are immunocompromised or disabled
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems
Public policy often imposes administrative burdens that constrain people’s ability to access benefits and affirmatively exercise fundamental rights. In this article, we extend the administrative burden framework to argue that the state also places burdens on people who have involuntary contact with coercive state institutions, such as the child welfare system. Just as administrative burdens lock “undeserving,” marginalized populations out of bene…
Termination of Parental Rights Is Common and Should Not Be Seen as a Proxy for Child Abuse
Journal Article Termination of Parental Rights Is Common and Should Not Be Seen as a Proxy for Child Abuse Get access Mical Raz, Mical Raz MD, PhD, is the Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor of Public Policy and Health, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scho…
Talking Therapy
Historian Kylie Smith sets out to tell the story of nurses in the shaping of American psychiatry. Nurses are the largest workforce in mental health, Smith explains, yet their contribution to the shaping of the psychiatric profession has remained underrecognized and underexplored. Nurses helped to shape the care of the mentally ill, both participating in the frontlines as well as in developing theoretical underpinnings. Yet, as Smith explicitly st…
David Herzberg. White Market Drugs
In twentieth-century America, two seemingly contradictory drug crises became increasingly visible. The first was an unprecedented rise in opioid addiction, devastating rural White areas including Appalachia and certain parts of the Midwest. The second was a stark increase in incarceration, disproportionately amongst racial minorities, creating a crisis termed the “new Jim Crow.” Herzberg begins his impeccably researched and argued book at this st…
Employer-Sponsored Insurance Amid the Pandemic
Bans on Covid-19 Mask Requirements vs Disability Accommodations
Stranger Danger
Mask Exemptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic—A New Frontier for Clinicians
Masking or face covering amid the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as a highly polarizing practice, with surprising partisan divisions. While masking remains contentious, there is bipartisan agreement among policy makers that medical exemptions for masking are necessary and appropriate. Yet there is a dearth of guidance for clinicians on how to approach a request for an exemption. We analyze the medical and legal st…
Calling child protectives services is a form of community policing that should be used appropriately
Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children
Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children Mical Raz MD, PhD, and Vivek Sankaran JD Affiliation Mical Raz is an associate professor of history and medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Vivek Sankaran is a clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Mical Raz, MD, PhD, 457 Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail:…
New Directions in the Historiography of Psychiatry
Gerald Grob's work in the history of psychiatry over the course of almost fifty years created a model for how historians might successfully situate mental health in its social and political context, and how inseparable it was from this context. Over the last twenty years, the field has grown tremendously. Historians have incorporated categories of analysis like gender and race, methodologies like cultural history and intellectual history, and sou…
The Recovery Revolution
The Recovery Revolution offers a timely history of addiction treatment in the United State, focusing particularly on therapeutic communities. Claire Clark, a historian with additional training in the behavioral sciences, presents a nuanced study of the rise, development and legacy of the 1960s therapeutic community model and the “recovery movement” it heralded. Beginning with Synanon, a controversial addiction treatment program developed in the l…
Ptsd
Notions of trauma are pervasive in our culture. As Allan V. Horwitz observes, Western culture now “routinely assumes that people who are exposed to traumas will develop serious and recurrent negative psychological consequences.” Post-traumatic stress disorder (Ptsd) is widely accepted; its victims are afforded compassion, and often compensation, in different forms. In this eminently accessible history of Ptsd, Horwitz skillfully guides readers th…
Psychiatrists and the Transformation of Juvenile Justice in Philadelphia, 1965–1972
In the late 1960s, Philadelphia psychiatrists evaluated every child who interacted with the city's juvenile courts. These evaluations had an important role in determining the placement and treatment of these children, and emphasized the therapeutic nature of the juvenile courts at the time. Relying on extensive case studies compiled by the Philadelphia Department of Public Welfare, this study reconstructs the roles of psychiatrists in the experie…
Treating Addiction or Reducing Crime? Methadone Maintenance and Drug Policy Under the Nixon Administration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Marga Vicedo, The Nature and Nurture of Love
Vicedo poses a fascinating and provocative question—how did mother love gain such a central role in popular views of normal childhood development? Focusing on the period between the Second World War and the 1970s, Vicedo compellingly demonstrates that this emphasis was not a result of robust scientific evidence. She follows how British psychoanalyst John Bowlby and his colleagues harnessed findings from animal experiments to argue for the necessi…
Deprived of touch
In 1943, a distinguished child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, Leo Kanner, published what would become a landmark article: a description of 11 children who suffered from a distinct disorder he called ‘infantile autism’. While initially quite obscure, in the early 1950s Kanner’s report garnered much attention, as clinicians and researchers interpreted these case studies as exemplifying the ill-effects of maternal deprivation, a new theor…
Alone Again
In the 1950s, sensory deprivation research emerged as an influential new field for behavioral science researchers, supported by the intelligence community. Within a few years, deprivation research had become ubiquitous; images of sensory deprivation were invoked to explain a wide range of phenomena, from religious revelations to the very structure of psychoanalysis. Yet within a decade and a half, this field of research became implicated in cases…
Vitamins for the soul
In 1951 John Bowlby, British psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist, published his now famous report, Maternal Care and Mental Health, commissioned by the World Health Organization. In this report, Bowlby coined the term ‘maternal deprivation’, which quickly permeated into Western psychiatry and psychology. The implications of Bowlby’s writings, while widely criticized and contested, generated a considerable amount of research and brought about sig…
Dying of 'Old Age' in Israel
This article examines the current state of end-of-life care in internal medicine wards in Israel, through an analysis of medical practice and the existing legal framework. The authors demonstrate the processes that lead chronically ill, elderly patients to perceive death as an unexpected phenomenon that is to be avoided at all costs. This perception stems, among other things, from the lack of public debate on questions relating to the end of life…
Was cultural deprivation in fact sensory deprivation? Deprivation, retardation and intervention in the USA
In the 1950s, the term "deprivation" entered American psychiatric discourse. This article examines how the concept of deprivation permeated the field of mental retardation, and became an accepted theory of etiology. It focuses on sensory deprivation and cultural deprivation, and analyzes the interventions developed, based on these theories. It argues that the controversial theory of cultural deprivation derived its scientific legitimization from …
Psychosurgery, Industry and Personal Responsibility, 1940-1965
Journal Article Psychosurgery, Industry and Personal Responsibility, 1940–1965 Get access Mical Raz Mical Raz * *Van Leer Institute, Jabotinsky 43, Jerusalem, Israel and Department of Internal Medicine J, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Weizman 6, Tel Aviv, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 23, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 116–…
Between the Ego and the Icepick
Between the years 1935 and 1965, tens of thousands of lobotomies were performed on Americans in order to treat mental illness. This article reconstructs the relations between the theory and practice of psychosurgery and a dynamic approach to mental illness. The article claims that psychosurgical discourse adopted key concepts from psychoanalytical discourse and that psychodynamically oriented psychiatrists and psychoanalysts incorporated the basi…
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems
Public policy often imposes administrative burdens that constrain people’s ability to access benefits and affirmatively exercise fundamental rights. In this article, we extend the administrative burden framework to argue that the state also places burdens on people who have involuntary contact with coercive state institutions, such as the child welfare system. Just as administrative burdens lock “undeserving,” marginalized populations out of bene…
Treating Addiction or Reducing Crime? Methadone Maintenance and Drug Policy Under the Nixon Administration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Calling child protectives services is a form of community policing that should be used appropriately
Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children
Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children Mical Raz MD, PhD, and Vivek Sankaran JD Affiliation Mical Raz is an associate professor of history and medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Vivek Sankaran is a clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Mical Raz, MD, PhD, 457 Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail:…
Deprived of touch
In 1943, a distinguished child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, Leo Kanner, published what would become a landmark article: a description of 11 children who suffered from a distinct disorder he called ‘infantile autism’. While initially quite obscure, in the early 1950s Kanner’s report garnered much attention, as clinicians and researchers interpreted these case studies as exemplifying the ill-effects of maternal deprivation, a new theor…
New Directions in the Historiography of Psychiatry
Gerald Grob's work in the history of psychiatry over the course of almost fifty years created a model for how historians might successfully situate mental health in its social and political context, and how inseparable it was from this context. Over the last twenty years, the field has grown tremendously. Historians have incorporated categories of analysis like gender and race, methodologies like cultural history and intellectual history, and sou…
Was cultural deprivation in fact sensory deprivation? Deprivation, retardation and intervention in the USA
In the 1950s, the term "deprivation" entered American psychiatric discourse. This article examines how the concept of deprivation permeated the field of mental retardation, and became an accepted theory of etiology. It focuses on sensory deprivation and cultural deprivation, and analyzes the interventions developed, based on these theories. It argues that the controversial theory of cultural deprivation derived its scientific legitimization from …
Psychosurgery, Industry and Personal Responsibility, 1940-1965
Journal Article Psychosurgery, Industry and Personal Responsibility, 1940–1965 Get access Mical Raz Mical Raz * *Van Leer Institute, Jabotinsky 43, Jerusalem, Israel and Department of Internal Medicine J, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Weizman 6, Tel Aviv, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 23, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 116–…
Between the Ego and the Icepick
Between the years 1935 and 1965, tens of thousands of lobotomies were performed on Americans in order to treat mental illness. This article reconstructs the relations between the theory and practice of psychosurgery and a dynamic approach to mental illness. The article claims that psychosurgical discourse adopted key concepts from psychoanalytical discourse and that psychodynamically oriented psychiatrists and psychoanalysts incorporated the basi…
Psychosurgery, Industry and Personal Responsibility, 1940-1965
Journal Article Psychosurgery, Industry and Personal Responsibility, 1940–1965 Get access Mical Raz Mical Raz * *Van Leer Institute, Jabotinsky 43, Jerusalem, Israel and Department of Internal Medicine J, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Weizman 6, Tel Aviv, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 23, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 116–…
Was cultural deprivation in fact sensory deprivation? Deprivation, retardation and intervention in the USA
In the 1950s, the term "deprivation" entered American psychiatric discourse. This article examines how the concept of deprivation permeated the field of mental retardation, and became an accepted theory of etiology. It focuses on sensory deprivation and cultural deprivation, and analyzes the interventions developed, based on these theories. It argues that the controversial theory of cultural deprivation derived its scientific legitimization from …
Vitamins for the soul
In 1951 John Bowlby, British psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist, published his now famous report, Maternal Care and Mental Health, commissioned by the World Health Organization. In this report, Bowlby coined the term ‘maternal deprivation’, which quickly permeated into Western psychiatry and psychology. The implications of Bowlby’s writings, while widely criticized and contested, generated a considerable amount of research and brought about sig…
Dying of 'Old Age' in Israel
This article examines the current state of end-of-life care in internal medicine wards in Israel, through an analysis of medical practice and the existing legal framework. The authors demonstrate the processes that lead chronically ill, elderly patients to perceive death as an unexpected phenomenon that is to be avoided at all costs. This perception stems, among other things, from the lack of public debate on questions relating to the end of life…
Deprived of touch
In 1943, a distinguished child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, Leo Kanner, published what would become a landmark article: a description of 11 children who suffered from a distinct disorder he called ‘infantile autism’. While initially quite obscure, in the early 1950s Kanner’s report garnered much attention, as clinicians and researchers interpreted these case studies as exemplifying the ill-effects of maternal deprivation, a new theor…
Alone Again
In the 1950s, sensory deprivation research emerged as an influential new field for behavioral science researchers, supported by the intelligence community. Within a few years, deprivation research had become ubiquitous; images of sensory deprivation were invoked to explain a wide range of phenomena, from religious revelations to the very structure of psychoanalysis. Yet within a decade and a half, this field of research became implicated in cases…
Marga Vicedo, The Nature and Nurture of Love
Vicedo poses a fascinating and provocative question—how did mother love gain such a central role in popular views of normal childhood development? Focusing on the period between the Second World War and the 1970s, Vicedo compellingly demonstrates that this emphasis was not a result of robust scientific evidence. She follows how British psychoanalyst John Bowlby and his colleagues harnessed findings from animal experiments to argue for the necessi…
Treating Addiction or Reducing Crime? Methadone Maintenance and Drug Policy Under the Nixon Administration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Psychiatrists and the Transformation of Juvenile Justice in Philadelphia, 1965–1972
In the late 1960s, Philadelphia psychiatrists evaluated every child who interacted with the city's juvenile courts. These evaluations had an important role in determining the placement and treatment of these children, and emphasized the therapeutic nature of the juvenile courts at the time. Relying on extensive case studies compiled by the Philadelphia Department of Public Welfare, this study reconstructs the roles of psychiatrists in the experie…
Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children
Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children Mical Raz MD, PhD, and Vivek Sankaran JD Affiliation Mical Raz is an associate professor of history and medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Vivek Sankaran is a clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Mical Raz, MD, PhD, 457 Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail:…
New Directions in the Historiography of Psychiatry
Gerald Grob's work in the history of psychiatry over the course of almost fifty years created a model for how historians might successfully situate mental health in its social and political context, and how inseparable it was from this context. Over the last twenty years, the field has grown tremendously. Historians have incorporated categories of analysis like gender and race, methodologies like cultural history and intellectual history, and sou…
The Recovery Revolution
The Recovery Revolution offers a timely history of addiction treatment in the United State, focusing particularly on therapeutic communities. Claire Clark, a historian with additional training in the behavioral sciences, presents a nuanced study of the rise, development and legacy of the 1960s therapeutic community model and the “recovery movement” it heralded. Beginning with Synanon, a controversial addiction treatment program developed in the l…
Ptsd
Notions of trauma are pervasive in our culture. As Allan V. Horwitz observes, Western culture now “routinely assumes that people who are exposed to traumas will develop serious and recurrent negative psychological consequences.” Post-traumatic stress disorder (Ptsd) is widely accepted; its victims are afforded compassion, and often compensation, in different forms. In this eminently accessible history of Ptsd, Horwitz skillfully guides readers th…
Mask Exemptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic—A New Frontier for Clinicians
Masking or face covering amid the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as a highly polarizing practice, with surprising partisan divisions. While masking remains contentious, there is bipartisan agreement among policy makers that medical exemptions for masking are necessary and appropriate. Yet there is a dearth of guidance for clinicians on how to approach a request for an exemption. We analyze the medical and legal st…
Calling child protectives services is a form of community policing that should be used appropriately
Employer-Sponsored Insurance Amid the Pandemic
Bans on Covid-19 Mask Requirements vs Disability Accommodations
Stranger Danger
David Herzberg. White Market Drugs
In twentieth-century America, two seemingly contradictory drug crises became increasingly visible. The first was an unprecedented rise in opioid addiction, devastating rural White areas including Appalachia and certain parts of the Midwest. The second was a stark increase in incarceration, disproportionately amongst racial minorities, creating a crisis termed the “new Jim Crow.” Herzberg begins his impeccably researched and argued book at this st…
Medical Professional Reports and Child Welfare System Infant Investigations
Background: Medical professionals are key components of child maltreatment surveillance. Updated estimates of reporting rates by medical professionals are needed. Methods: We use the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (2000-2019) to estimate rates of child welfare investigations of infants stemming from medical professional reporting to child welfare agencies. We adjust for missing data and join records to population data to compute rac…
Physicians’ Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients—An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession
This Viewpoint discusses why clinician masking is still important for patients who are immunocompromised or disabled
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems
Public policy often imposes administrative burdens that constrain people’s ability to access benefits and affirmatively exercise fundamental rights. In this article, we extend the administrative burden framework to argue that the state also places burdens on people who have involuntary contact with coercive state institutions, such as the child welfare system. Just as administrative burdens lock “undeserving,” marginalized populations out of bene…
Termination of Parental Rights Is Common and Should Not Be Seen as a Proxy for Child Abuse
Journal Article Termination of Parental Rights Is Common and Should Not Be Seen as a Proxy for Child Abuse Get access Mical Raz, Mical Raz MD, PhD, is the Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor of Public Policy and Health, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scho…
Talking Therapy
Historian Kylie Smith sets out to tell the story of nurses in the shaping of American psychiatry. Nurses are the largest workforce in mental health, Smith explains, yet their contribution to the shaping of the psychiatric profession has remained underrecognized and underexplored. Nurses helped to shape the care of the mentally ill, both participating in the frontlines as well as in developing theoretical underpinnings. Yet, as Smith explicitly st…
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