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The black stork : eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915 / / Martin S. Pernick
| The black stork : eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915 / / Martin S. Pernick |
| Autore | Pernick Martin S |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Toronto, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174.2/5/0973 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Newborn infants - Diseases - Treatment - Moral and ethical aspects
Eugenics in motion pictures Abnormalities, Human - Treatment - Moral and ethical aspects Euthanasia - Moral and ethical aspects Eugenics - United States - History - 20th century Infanticide - Moral and ethical aspects |
| ISBN |
0-19-773744-7
0-19-975974-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- I: WITHHOLDING TREATMENT -- 1. The Birth of a Controversy -- The Public Death of Baby Bollinger -- Debates and Investigations -- The Doctor and the Parents -- Haiselden and History -- A Word about Words -- 2. Contexts to the Conflict -- Before Baby Bollinger: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia -- U.S.A., 1915 -- Taking Sides: Some Rough Images of the Debate -- 3. Identifying the Unfit: Biology and Culture in the Construction of Hereditary Disease -- Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Scientific Conceptions to 1915 -- Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Haiselden and Mass Cultural Meanings -- Constructing the Socially Defective: Crime, Race, and Class -- Defects and Desires: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Sex -- Elite Priorities and Mass Culture: Physical and Mental Defects -- Degrees of Difference: Normality or Perfection? -- Opposing Expansive Concepts of Hereditary Defect: Equal Worth or Entering Wedge? -- Fitness and Objectivity -- 4. Eliminating the Unfit: Euthanasia and Eugenics -- From Prevention to Death -- Killing or Letting Die -- For Whose Benefit? -- Loving and Loathing -- Objective Science and Moral Obligation -- 5. Who Decides? The Ironies of Professional Power -- Doctors, Families, and the State -- Support for Medical Power -- Opponents of Medical Decision Making -- Eugenics and Gender Politics within Families and in Society -- Specialization and the Limits of Objectivity -- II: PUBLICITY -- 6. Mass-Media Medicine and Aesthetic Censorship -- Publicity, Public Health, and Professional Power -- Medical Movies and the Rise of Aesthetic Censorship -- 7. Eugenics on Film -- 8. The Black Stork -- The Movie -- Making and Distributing The Black Stork -- 9. Medicine, Media, and Memory -- From Haiselden to Hitler: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia, 1919-1945.
Baby Doe, Doctor Death, and the Human Genome Project: Comparing Haiselden's America with the Present -- Appendix: Individuals Involved in the Controversy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Index of Film Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814324703321 |
Pernick Martin S
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| New York ; ; Toronto, : Oxford University Press, 1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Popular eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / / edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell
| Popular eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / / edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 406 p |
| Disciplina | 363.9/2097309043 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CurrellSusan
CogdellChristina |
| Soggetto topico |
Eugenics - United States - History - 20th century
Eugenics - Social aspects - United States Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century Eugenics in literature Eugenics in motion pictures Culture in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8214-4206-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453961203321 |
| Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Popular eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / / edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell
| Popular eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / / edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 406 p |
| Disciplina | 363.9/2097309043 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CurrellSusan
CogdellChristina |
| Soggetto topico |
Eugenics - United States - History - 20th century
Eugenics - Social aspects - United States Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century Eugenics in literature Eugenics in motion pictures Culture in motion pictures |
| ISBN | 0-8214-4206-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Susan Currell -- A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline -- Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell -- "Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani -- "Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis -- Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies -- Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender -- The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey -- Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell -- Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter -- Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper -- Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely -- Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith -- The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782089803321 |
| Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Popular eugenics : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / / edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell
| Popular eugenics : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / / edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 406 p |
| Disciplina | 363.9/2097309043 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CurrellSusan
CogdellChristina |
| Soggetto topico |
Eugenics - United States - History - 20th century
Eugenics - Social aspects - United States Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century Eugenics in literature Eugenics in motion pictures Culture in motion pictures |
| ISBN | 0-8214-4206-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Susan Currell -- A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline -- Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell -- "Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani -- "Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis -- Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies -- Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender -- The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey -- Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell -- Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter -- Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper -- Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely -- Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith -- The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822947703321 |
| Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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