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By Martin S. Pernick. 295 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-507731-8.

A physician helps a suffering patient die. Newspapers across the country cover the story, engendering a nationwide debate over whether the doctor is a murderer or a humanitarian.

These events have a modern ring, but they actually occurred in 1915. Long before Jack Kevorkian there was Harry Haiselden, a Chicago physician and eugenicist who not only let a baby with severe disabilities die, but also wrote and starred in a movie to publicize the need to withhold aggressive treatment from all such "defective" babies. In this excellent book, Martin Pernick has resurrected the long-forgotten story of the Bollinger baby, Haiselden, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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