JOSEF WARKANY'S GESTATION of the TERATOLOGY SOCIETY
Josef Warkany merits most of the credit for the creation of modern scientific Medical Teratology. This new clinical discipline is dedicated to the study of causes, diagnosis, care and prevention of malformations, developmental disabilities, mental retardation and other birth defects.
This full version highlights how Warkany contributed to the demise of a world-wide dogma upheld by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state. Birth defects, congenital malformations, mental retardation and other disabilities can no longer be viewed as inherently of genetic nature. Most humanity today is aware that environmental teratogens can disrupt the normal development of an embryo and fetus.