Contact
Cum să cumpăr
Livrare
Consilier de cumpărături
Black Stork
Eugenics and the Death of `Defective' Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915
engleză
111 b
Până la 30 de zile pentru returnare
Clienții au cumpărat de asemenea
/
Carte broșată
94.88
lei
/
Carte broșată
280.62
lei
In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chicago surgeon, electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of at least six infants he diagnosed as "defectives". Seeking to publicize his efforts to eliminate the "unfit", he displayed the dying infants to journalists, wrote about them for the Hearst newspapers, and starred in a feature film about his crusade. Prominent Americans from Clarence Darrow to Helen Keller rallied to his support. The Black Stork tells this startling story, based on newly-rediscovered sources and long-lost motion pictures, in order to illuminate many broader controversies. The books shows how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercy-killing (euthanasia) and with race, class, gender and ethnic hatreds. It documents how mass culture changed the meaning of medical concepts like "heredity" and "disease", and how medical controversies helped shape the commercial mass media. It demonstrates how cultural values influence science, and how scientific claims of objectivity have shaped modern culture. While focused on the formative years of early 20th century America, The Black Stork traces these issues from antiquity to the rise of Nazism, and to the "Baby Doe", "assisted suicide" and human genome initiative debates of today.
Informații despre carte
engleză
Categorii
Dăruiește această carte chiar astăzi
Este foarte ușor
1 Adaugă cartea în coș și selectează Livrează ca un cadou 2 Îți vom trimite un voucher în schimb 3 Cartea va ajunge direct la adresa destinataruluiAr putea de asemenea, să te intereseze
/
Carte broșată
61.80
lei
/
Carte broșată
178.96
lei
/
Copertă tare
241.81
lei
Bună ziua! Sunt Libroamiko, consilierul dumneavoastră de cărți.
Cu ce vă pot ajuta?