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.