Pernick, Martin S.    frey50        <br/><br/>
The black stork:  Eugincs and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.  Print 
Martin S. Pernick. 
 - New York  Oxford University Press  1996 
 - 295 p.  Hardback. 
<br/><br/> "The Black Stork" is a most frightening tale of medicine run amok. Martin Pernick's narrative of Dr. Harry J. Haiselden's fin-de-siecle crusade in the late 1910's for the euthanasia of 'defective' children is a tale of the tangled path way of science in its pursuit of social ends.  Haiselden's eugenic fantasy was a perfect race of 'undamaged' humans.  Since these questions have arisen in more sophisticated form with the knowledge achieved daily through the human genome project, Pernick's narrative is a strong warning abou tthe slippery slope of determining what life is worth living. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195077318 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Eugenics - Medicine - United States- 20th century.--Euthanasia - Medicine - Defective children - United States - 20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>179.7 Par   7