The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915 by Martin S. Pernick

The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915

Martin S. Pernick

328 pages hardcover 1996

3 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 Hear...

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