The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915Oxford University Press, 18 apr 1996 - 328 pagina's 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. |
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... mass culture today . It is in- tended to provide a useful model for integrating contextual history , mass culture , and medicine . The book contains two parts : one on the medical controversies and one on the movies . But the ...
... mass culture today . It is in- tended to provide a useful model for integrating contextual history , mass culture , and medicine . The book contains two parts : one on the medical controversies and one on the movies . But the ...
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... Mass Cultural Meanings , 48 Constructing the Socially Defective : Crime , Race , and Class , 54 Defects and Desires : Eugenics , Aesthetics , and Sex , 60 Elite Priorities and Mass Culture : Physical and Mental Defects , 71 Degrees of ...
... Mass Cultural Meanings , 48 Constructing the Socially Defective : Crime , Race , and Class , 54 Defects and Desires : Eugenics , Aesthetics , and Sex , 60 Elite Priorities and Mass Culture : Physical and Mental Defects , 71 Degrees of ...
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... mass media , but it had no immediate impact on Haisel- den's practice . Six months later , he claimed to be performing twenty major operations a week.20 The Doctor and the Parents The man at the center of these events , Harry J ...
... mass media , but it had no immediate impact on Haisel- den's practice . Six months later , he claimed to be performing twenty major operations a week.20 The Doctor and the Parents The man at the center of these events , Harry J ...
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... Mass - media preoccu- pation with novelty and impatience with complex issues clearly played a role in this change , as did the altered political agenda of wartime and postwar America . But as Part II will show , the disap- pearance of ...
... Mass - media preoccu- pation with novelty and impatience with complex issues clearly played a role in this change , as did the altered political agenda of wartime and postwar America . But as Part II will show , the disap- pearance of ...
Inhoudsopgave
PUBLICITY | 115 |
Individuals Involved in the Controversy | 177 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 281 |
Index of Film Titles | 293 |
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The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American ... Martin S. Pernick Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1996 |
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "defective" Babies in American ... Martin S. Pernick Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1999 |
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