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The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915
by Martin S. Pernick
ISBN: 0195135393
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· 2017-06-12 ·
Original thread
Context:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Stork-Eugenics-Defective-Americ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Haiselden
"Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 – June 18, 1919) was the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago in 1915 who refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics."