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CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS THE BLACK STORK

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of the University of Virginia Health System will continue its' 1999-2000 History of the Health Sciences lecture series on Wednesday, February 9, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., in the Jordan Hall auditorium. Martin S. Pernick, professor of history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, will present the lecture The Black Stork: Eugenic Euthanasia in Early 20th Century America.

As part of his presentation, Pernick will show excerpts from the only known print of the historic film, The Black Stork. The movie explicitly advocates death for the unfit.

Pernick has written a book entitled The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of 'Defective' Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915.

All lectures are free and open to the public. The next presentation in the History of Health Sciences lecture series will be given on Wednesday, March 29, by Keith Wailoo, associate professor of social medicine and history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The History of the Health Sciences lecture series is sponsored each year by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Continuing Medical Education Program as an educational service for the University of Virginia Health System and interested citizens in the community.

For more information, please contact Joan Klein at (804) 924-0052 or jre@virginia.edu.

January 24, 2000