I had the same question reading this article. Click on the name of the twins (see article) - the rest of the story is there. Like the author of this article, I do not trust science alone without a system (faith, ethics, etc.) to keep it in check. But, there were many more players in this story:
The adoption agency had a policy of separating twins, and the agency was "in on" the study. Even the adoptive parents were aware their adopted daughters were being studied, though they didn't know the true nature of the study. The birth mother has no interest in meeting the twins. They probably would've been raised separately, even if the scientist hadn't taken advantage of the opportunity to study them. I wouldn't put him in the same category as Mengele.
Like others you are missing the point. It is not unethical for scientists to study spearated twins, it is unethical for twins to be separated to conduct a scientific study.
Thanks. I suspected something like that. When the story’s emotional plea gets ahead of the details, I’m always suspicious.
Peter Neubauer, M.D. - Board Member. Peter Neubauer, M.D. is a renowned psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York. A native of Vienna, Austria, Dr. Neubauer received his undergraduate degree from the University of Vienna Medical School and his M.D. from the University of Bern Medical School in 1938. He has served numerous Board appointments including the Sigmund Freud Archives and the Sigmund Freud Gesellschaft. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association. Previously, Dr. Neubauer served as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New York University and as a Founding Member of the National Advisory Council for Clinical and Infant Programs at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Neubauer has been recognized with numerous awards, most recently the Margaret Mahler Psychiatric Research Foundation Literature Award in May of 2003. He is author of over 150 chapters in psychoanalytic texts.
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Margaret Schonberger Mahler
Just nine months and 6 days after Gustav Schonberger and Eugenia Weiner-Schonberger were wed, they bore a daughter on May 10, in 1897. Margaret Mahler was born in the small western Hungarian town of Sopron close to Vienna............Eugenia dominated the household and was very unhappy with having a child at such a young age. Gustav became the primary care giver to Margaret.............. Four years after Margaret an expected child was born, Margaret had a younger sister named Suzanne that was adored by Eugenia. Margaret once overheard her mother say to Suzanne “I have brought you into this world, I suckle you, I love you, I adore you, I live only for you, you are my whole life.” Margaret’s heart being shattered, replied, “And I, I was born to my father.” Margaret later believed that the way her mother treated her was the reason she grew such an interest in pediatrics and psychoanalysis. One of the happiest moments of Margaret’s childhood was when Suzanne was two and put her cheek to a hot iron. Their mother was mortified and hysterical. She couldn’t believe her “pretty daughter” ruined her face............Growing up for Margaret was not a happy time, she had a very low self-esteem and was jealous of the praises that Suzanne received from their mother.
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