The black stork : eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915 / Martin S. Pernick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pernick, Martin S., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiselden, Harry J.

Black stork (Motion picture).

Eugenics--United States--History--20th century.

Eugenics.

Eugenics in motion pictures.

Euthanasia--United States--History--20th century.

Euthanasia.

Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.

Newborn infants--Diseases--Treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.

Newborn infants.

Abnormalities, Human--Treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.

Abnormalities, Human.

Infanticide--Moral and ethical aspects.

Infanticide.

Local Subjects:

Haiselden, Harry J.

Black stork (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1910s, Dr Haiselden allowed the deaths of six infants he diagnozed as "defectives". His story highlights many other controversies. The book shows how efforts to improve human heredity became linked with euthanasia and shows how mass culture changed the meaning of concepts like "heredity".

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I: WITHHOLDING TREATMENT

1. The Birth of a Controversy

The Public Death of Baby Bollinger

Debates and Investigations

The Doctor and the Parents

Haiselden and History

A Word about Words

2. Contexts to the Conflict

Before Baby Bollinger: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia

U.S.A., 1915

Taking Sides: Some Rough Images of the Debate

3. Identifying the Unfit: Biology and Culture in the Construction of Hereditary Disease

Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Scientific Conceptions to 1915

Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Haiselden and Mass Cultural Meanings

Constructing the Socially Defective: Crime, Race, and Class

Defects and Desires: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Sex

Elite Priorities and Mass Culture: Physical and Mental Defects

Degrees of Difference: Normality or Perfection?

Opposing Expansive Concepts of Hereditary Defect: Equal Worth or Entering Wedge?

Fitness and Objectivity

4. Eliminating the Unfit: Euthanasia and Eugenics

From Prevention to Death

Killing or Letting Die

For Whose Benefit?

Loving and Loathing

Objective Science and Moral Obligation

5. Who Decides? The Ironies of Professional Power

Doctors, Families, and the State

Support for Medical Power

Opponents of Medical Decision Making

Eugenics and Gender Politics within Families and in Society

Specialization and the Limits of Objectivity

II: PUBLICITY

6. Mass-Media Medicine and Aesthetic Censorship

Publicity, Public Health, and Professional Power

Medical Movies and the Rise of Aesthetic Censorship

7. Eugenics on Film

8. The Black Stork

The Movie

Making and Distributing The Black Stork

9. Medicine, Media, and Memory

From Haiselden to Hitler: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia, 1919-1945.

Baby Doe, Doctor Death, and the Human Genome Project: Comparing Haiselden's America with the Present

Appendix: Individuals Involved in the Controversy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Index of Film Titles

W.

Notes:

Bibliography: p251-280. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773744-7

0-19-975974-X

OCLC:

666991692