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Family Practice Vol. 17, No. 5, 449
© Oxford University Press 2000

Book reviews

The black stork: eugenics and the death of ‘defective’ babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

MS Pernick. (310 pages, £22.95.) Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-507731-8.

Roger Higgs

Professor of General Practice at King's College who writes on medical ethics

History may not repeat itself exactly, but by its light we can see some of the pitfalls that lie either side of difficult decisions. As human genome work goes into overdrive, a slim volume from an American academic gives us a glimpse of the darker side of the project to improve the human gene pool. In a film buff's garage in New Jersey, the author discovered the last intact version of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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