Background
Pernick, Martin Steven was born on June 2, 1948 in New York City. Son of Louis W. and Florence P. (Goldberg) Pernick.
(In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chi...)
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". 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. Martin Pernick tells this captivating story-uncovering forgotten sources and long-lost motion pictures-in order to show how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercy killing, as well as with race, class, gender and ethnicity. It documents the impact of cultural values on science along with the way scientific claims of objectivity shape modern culture. While focused on 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.
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Pernick, Martin Steven was born on June 2, 1948 in New York City. Son of Louis W. and Florence P. (Goldberg) Pernick.
Bachelor, Brandeis University, 1968. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1979.
Lecturer College Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, 1972-1979; from assistant professor to professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1979. Visiting lecturer Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1976. Creator, director History Health Film Collection, Ann Arbor, since 1986.
(In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chi...)
Member American Association History Medicine (executive council 1992-1995).
Son of Louis W. and Florence P. (Goldberg) P. m. Marie R. Deveney, July 8, 1983. 1 child, Benjamin William.