Black stork, the: eugenics and the death of `defective' babies in american medicine and motion pictures since 1915
Auteur :
Pernick, Martin S.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195135398
Date de publication :
12 oct. 2000
Dimensions :
23,2 x 15,6 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
549 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The Black Stork uses the story of a Chicago surgeon who, in the 1910s, allowed the deaths of infants he diagnosed as "defectives", to illuminate broader questions: how efforts to improve human heredity became linked with mercy killing and social prejudices; how medicine influenced modern culture; and how mass culture redefined medical concepts.