Author: Martin S. Pernick
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0195135393
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915
In the late 1910s Dr. Medical books The Black Stork. 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 Medical books The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in Am .... The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915 Oxford University Press, USA 9780195077315 09780195077315
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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Black Stork by Martin S. Pernick Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New The Black Stork uses the story of the Chicago surgeon who allowed the deaths of defective infants in the 1910s, to illuminate broader questions: how efforts to improve eugenics became linked with mercy killing (euthanasia) and social prejudices; how medicine influenced modern culture; and how mass culture redefined key medical concepts. Publi
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
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
Medical Book The Black Stork
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.
