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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... Scientific Conceptions to 1915 , 42 Heredity , Environment , and the Scope of Eugenics : Haiselden and Mass Cultural Meanings , 48 Constructing the Socially Defective : Crime , Race , and Class , 54 Defects and Desires : Eugenics ...
... Scientific Conceptions to 1915 , 42 Heredity , Environment , and the Scope of Eugenics : Haiselden and Mass Cultural Meanings , 48 Constructing the Socially Defective : Crime , Race , and Class , 54 Defects and Desires : Eugenics ...
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... scientific institutions among Chicago's fourteen medical schools , according to Abraham Flexner's 1910 sur- vey of American medical education.24 The school had clinical privileges at Cook County Hospital , where Haiselden attracted the ...
... scientific institutions among Chicago's fourteen medical schools , according to Abraham Flexner's 1910 sur- vey of American medical education.24 The school had clinical privileges at Cook County Hospital , where Haiselden attracted the ...
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... scientific programs . Historians have focused on the ideas of these leaders , and many have implicitly adopted the leaders ' con- tempt for mass culture.38 But this book will show that such an approach misses the vital role of mass ...
... scientific programs . Historians have focused on the ideas of these leaders , and many have implicitly adopted the leaders ' con- tempt for mass culture.38 But this book will show that such an approach misses the vital role of mass ...
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... scientific movement to fight hereditary disease became as- sociated with racial , class , ethnic , and gender hatreds that eventu- ally would be invoked to justify genocide . There were no logically necessary links between fighting ...
... scientific movement to fight hereditary disease became as- sociated with racial , class , ethnic , and gender hatreds that eventu- ally would be invoked to justify genocide . There were no logically necessary links between fighting ...
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... scientific method proved too fragile a bond to counter the increasing specialization that soon fragmented both the scientific community and the progressive political movement and that threatened to undermine their belief in objectivity ...
... scientific method proved too fragile a bond to counter the increasing specialization that soon fragmented both the scientific community and the progressive political movement and that threatened to undermine their belief in objectivity ...
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 Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1999 |
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