The Black Stork : eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915 /

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Author / Creator:Pernick, Martin S., author.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
copyright 1996
Description:1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12343994
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Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed August 22, 2016).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and indexes.
In English.
Summary:In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chicago surgeon, electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of at least six infants he diagnosed as 'defectives.' He displayed the dying infants to journalists, wrote about them for the Hearst newspapers, and starred in a feature film about his crusade. Prominent Americans from Clarence Darrow to Helen Keller rallied to his support. Martin Pernick tells this captivating story--uncovering forgotten sources and long-lost motion pictures--in order to show how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercy killing, as well as with race, class, gender and ethnicity. It documents the impact of cultural values on science along with the way scientific claims of objectivity shape modern culture. While focused on early 20th century America, The Black Stork traces these issues from antiquity to the rise of Nazism, and to the 'Baby Doe,' 'assisted suicide', and human genome initiative debates of today.
Other form:Original version: 9780195135398

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505 0 |a PART I: Withholding Treatment. 1. The Birth of a Controversy. ; 2: Contexts to the Conflict ; 3: Identifying the Unfit: Biology and Culture in the Construction of Hereditary Disease ; 4. Eliminating the Unfit: Euthanasia and Eugenics ; 5: Who Decides? The Ironies of Professional Power -- PART II: Publicity. 6: Mass-Media Medicine and Aesthetic Censorship ; 7: Eugenics on Film ; 8: The Black Stork ; 9: Medicine, Media, and Memory -- Appendix: Individuals Involved in the Controversy. 
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