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The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915 1st Edition

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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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0195135393
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July 22, 1999
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"A veritable page-turner whose unifying narrative thread is nothing less than infanticide....The scope of the book is as impressive as its argument."--Journal of the History of Medicine

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (July 22, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195135393
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195135398
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.14 x 0.76 x 6.13 inches

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J. Montoto

Thought provoking.

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Excellent expansion upon a a limited number of incidents to the overall issue in general. Plus the history of using the motion picture to educate the public (veracity of the education notwithstanding) on controversial or taboo subjects is interesting in and of itself.

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History's Warning of How Elite "Experts" Can Lead Us Astray

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Great example of how the "experts" we rely on so much have failed us throughout history

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This investigative reporter tracks his family through the 1920's, its link to mental institutions, and social beliefs. Shame and secrets abound, leading me to extensive reading on the topic of Eugenics (better off not born).

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Excellent book.

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2015

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Bought another copy after I gave the first one away. Excellent book.

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Powerful Insights Into American Culture

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2008

This is a very well written and fascinating book that exposes a side of American history that is little remembered today, but was a dominant strain in American culture in the teens and twenties, and exerted a shadow influence on American public policy for decades thereafter, if not until the present day. I discovered this book in the course of doing research for a writing project in my third year of law school -- it was not entirely on-point, but so engaging I couldn't put it down! Has some very helpful illustrations, too. Highly recommended.

P.S. I don't understand the Amazon reviewer who criticized this book for its supposedly poor writing style. I am, alas, all too familiar with poor academic writing. Pernick, the author of this book, is first-rate, though admittedly, this is not a book for children.

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A black day in History

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I couldn't believe this. I just had to read this to understand why a doctor would let a baby, any baby die. After reading this I can understand the concept of why some people/doctor's idea of letting people/babies die if their life quality will be less then what they believe is "normal". But then what about people who have done so many GREAT things even though they are disabled in some way - blind - deaf - loss of a limb - We shouldn't look at someone as disabled but as "abled" to do anything but just in a different way.

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