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The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of
The Black Stork Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915
Author: Martin S. Pernick
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." 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) beca...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195077315
ISBN-10: 0195077318
Publication Date: 4/18/1996
Pages: 295
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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