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The Black Stork

Eugenics and the Death of `Defective' Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915

Gebonden Engels 1996 9780195077315
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In the 1910s a Chicago surgeon electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of infants he diagnosed as "defectives". He publicized the cases in print and film, winning support from many prominent Americans. The Black Stork uses this newly-rediscovered story to illuminate many broader questions: how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercy killing (euthanasia) and social prejudices; how medicine influenced modern culture; and how mass culture redefined key medical concepts.

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