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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... value free , but they insisted that their choice of values was derived from and proven by objective methods . But faith in objectivity did not cure the value conflicts inherent in such decisions ; it only camouflaged them . Both ...
... value free , but they insisted that their choice of values was derived from and proven by objective methods . But faith in objectivity did not cure the value conflicts inherent in such decisions ; it only camouflaged them . Both ...
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... values people actually used to make such judg- ments . And because they believed their values to be objectively proven , they could dismiss ethical or political criticism as biased , unscientific , and therefore irrelevant . While ...
... values people actually used to make such judg- ments . And because they believed their values to be objectively proven , they could dismiss ethical or political criticism as biased , unscientific , and therefore irrelevant . While ...
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... values remains strong and , I will ar- gue , remains as dangerously deceptive today as it was in Haisel- den's time . Finally , then as now , the issue of withholding medical treat- ment became enmeshed in controversy over the role of ...
... values remains strong and , I will ar- gue , remains as dangerously deceptive today as it was in Haisel- den's time . Finally , then as now , the issue of withholding medical treat- ment became enmeshed in controversy over the role of ...
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... value judgments asso- ciated with older words like " freak " or " sport . " But the use of objective - sounding ... values implicit in past terminology . 2 Contexts to the Conflict Before Baby Bollinger : Infanticide 18 WITHHOLDING ...
... value judgments asso- ciated with older words like " freak " or " sport . " But the use of objective - sounding ... values implicit in past terminology . 2 Contexts to the Conflict Before Baby Bollinger : Infanticide 18 WITHHOLDING ...
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Inhoudsopgave
PUBLICITY | 115 |
Individuals Involved in the Controversy | 177 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 281 |
Index of Film Titles | 293 |
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