The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915

Contents......Page 14
I: WITHHOLDING TREATMENT......Page 18
The Public Death of Baby Bollinger......Page 20
Debates and Investigations......Page 23
The Doctor and the Parents......Page 25
Haiselden and History......Page 29
A Word about Words......Page 34
Before Baby Bollinger: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia......Page 36
U.S.A., 1915......Page 42
Taking Sides: Some Rough Images of the Debate......Page 46
3. Identifying the Unfit: Biology and Culture in the Construction of Hereditary Disease......Page 58
Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Scientific Conceptions to 1915......Page 59
Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Haiselden and Mass Cultural Meanings......Page 65
Constructing the Socially Defective: Crime, Race, and Class......Page 71
Defects and Desires: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Sex......Page 77
Elite Priorities and Mass Culture: Physical and Mental Defects......Page 88
Degrees of Difference: Normality or Perfection?......Page 90
Opposing Expansive Concepts of Hereditary Defect: Equal Worth or Entering Wedge?......Page 92
Fitness and Objectivity......Page 95
From Prevention to Death......Page 98
Killing or Letting Die......Page 102
For Whose Benefit?......Page 106
Loving and Loathing......Page 111
Objective Science and Moral Obligation......Page 114
Doctors, Families, and the State......Page 118
Support for Medical Power......Page 119
Opponents of Medical Decision Making......Page 122
Eugenics and Gender Politics within Families and in Society......Page 126
Specialization and the Limits of Objectivity......Page 128
II: PUBLICITY......Page 132
Publicity, Public Health, and Professional Power......Page 134
Medical Movies and the Rise of Aesthetic Censorship......Page 138
7. Eugenics on Film......Page 146
The Movie......Page 160
Making and Distributing The Black Stork......Page 183
9. Medicine, Media, and Memory......Page 192
From Haiselden to Hitler: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia, 1919–1945......Page 193
Baby Doe, Doctor Death, and the Human Genome Project: Comparing Haiselden\'s America with the Present......Page 200
Appendix: Individuals Involved in the Controversy......Page 210
Notes......Page 222
Bibliography......Page 284
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