Contents -- I: WITHHOLDING TREATMENT -- 1. The Birth of a Controversy -- The Public Death of Baby Bollinger -- Debates and Investigations -- The Doctor and the Parents -- Haiselden and History -- A Word about Words -- 2. Contexts to the Conflict -- Before Baby Bollinger: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia -- U.S.A., 1915 -- Taking Sides: Some Rough Images of the Debate -- 3. Identifying the Unfit: Biology and Culture in the Construction of Hereditary Disease -- Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Scientific Conceptions to 1915 -- Heredity, Environment, and the Scope of Eugenics: Haiselden and Mass Cultural Meanings -- Constructing the Socially Defective: Crime, Race, and Class -- Defects and Desires: Eugenics, Aesthetics, and Sex -- Elite Priorities and Mass Culture: Physical and Mental Defects -- Degrees of Difference: Normality or Perfection? -- Opposing Expansive Concepts of Hereditary Defect: Equal Worth or Entering Wedge? -- Fitness and Objectivity -- 4. Eliminating the Unfit: Euthanasia and Eugenics -- From Prevention to Death -- Killing or Letting Die -- For Whose Benefit? -- Loving and Loathing -- Objective Science and Moral Obligation -- 5. Who Decides? The Ironies of Professional Power -- Doctors, Families, and the State -- Support for Medical Power -- Opponents of Medical Decision Making -- Eugenics and Gender Politics within Families and in Society -- Specialization and the Limits of Objectivity -- II: PUBLICITY -- 6. Mass-Media Medicine and Aesthetic Censorship -- Publicity, Public Health, and Professional Power -- Medical Movies and the Rise of Aesthetic Censorship -- 7. Eugenics on Film -- 8. The Black Stork -- The Movie -- Making and Distributing The Black Stork -- 9. Medicine, Media, and Memory -- From Haiselden to Hitler: Infanticide, Eugenics, and Euthanasia, 1919-1945.

Baby Doe, Doctor Death, and the Human Genome Project: Comparing Haiselden's America with the Present -- Appendix: Individuals Involved in the Controversy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Index of Film Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.