The black stork
Infants (newborn), diseases
Abnormalities, human
Medicine, united states
Infanticide
Human Abnormalities
Eugenics
Infants (Newborn)
Euthanasia
Newborn infants
Motion pictures, history
History, 20th Century
Medical ethics
Motion pictures
Moral and ethical aspects
Treatment
Diseases
History
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 th…
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