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

Publication Info.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	179.7 P452B	Check Shelf

Description	xv, 295 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents	Preface -- I. Withholding treatment -- 1. The birth of a controversy -- 2. Contexts to the conflict -- 3. Indentifying the unfit: biology and culture in the construction of hereditary disease -- 4. Eliminiating the unfit: euthanasia and eugenics -- 5. Who decides? the ironies of professional power -- II. Publicity -- 6. Mass-media medicine and aesthetic censorship -- Eugenics on film -- 8. The Black Stork -- 9. Medicine, media, and memory -- Appendix: Individuals involved in the controversy.
Note	First issued as an Oxford University Pres paperback, 1999.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and indexes.
Subject	Black stork (Motion picture)
	Black stork (Motion picture)
	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.
	Infanticide -- history -- United States.
	Congenital Abnormalities -- mortality.
	Euthanasia -- history -- United States.
	Eugenics -- history -- United States.
	Ethics, Medical -- history -- United States.
	Motion Pictures -- history -- United States.
	History, 20th Century -- United States.
ISBN	0195135393

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