PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kurt Lewin, Seminary, Milgram Experiment
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Alan turing a british mathematician, logician, and philosopher educated at princeton and. In january 1952, when turing was 39, he was arrested for gross indecency, a term the. Turing was convicted of the charge and allowed to choose between imprisonment and chemical castration. He chose chemical castration which involved the administration of female hormones. Turing tried to come to the united states but was considered a security risk and not allowed to enter. On june 8, 1954, turing was found dead from cyanide poisoning in his apartment. At the time of turing"s death, homosexuality was illegal in most states of the u. s. Seventeen years later, in lawrence v. texas, the court reversed itself, declaring that homosexual conduct was permitted under the due process clause of the fourteenth. Thereupon, all laws in the u. s. criminalizing homosexual acts became invalid. Until 1974, the american psychiatric association held that homosexuality was a mental illness.
