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

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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." Seeking to publicize his efforts to eliminate the "unfit," he displayed the dying infants to journalists, wro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pernick, Martin S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Temas:
Black stork (Motion picture)
Black stork
1900-1999
Newborn infants > Diseases > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Eugenics in motion pictures.
Abnormalities, Human > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects.
Eugenics > United States > History > 20th century.
Infanticide > Moral and ethical aspects.
Congenital Abnormalities > therapy
Congenital Abnormalities > mortality
Ethics, Medical > history
Eugenics > history
Euthanasia > history
History, 20th Century
Infanticide > history
Motion Pictures as Topic > history
Nouveau-nés > Maladies > Traitement > Aspect moral.
Eugénisme au cinéma.
Euthanasie > Aspect moral.
Eugénisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Infanticide > Aspect moral.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Abnormalities, Human > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects
Eugenics
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
Infanticide > Moral and ethical aspects
Eugenics in motion pictures
Newborn infants > Diseases > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects
Massenmedien
Öffentliche Meinung
Eugenik
Medizin
Eugenetica.
Beeldvorming.
Euthanasie.
United States
USA
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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