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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781184503321

Autore

Pernick Martin S

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996

ISBN

0-19-773744-7

0-19-975974-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

174.2/5/0973

Soggetti

SCIENCE

Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics

Newborn infants - Treatment - Moral and ethical aspects - Diseases - 20th century - United States

Eugenics in motion pictures - Treatment - Moral and ethical aspects

Abnormalities, Human - Moral and ethical aspects

Euthanasia - History

Eugenics - Moral and ethical aspects

Infanticide

Congenital Abnormalities - therapy

Congenital Abnormalities - mortality

Ethics, Medical - history

Eugenics - history

Euthanasia - history

History, 20th Century

Infanticide - history

Motion Pictures - history

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.