Harry J. Haiselden
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Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 - June 18, 1919) was the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago in 1915 who refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.[1][2]
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He was born on March 16, 1870 in Plano, Illinois to George Haiselden. In 1893 he graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. In 1915 he was put on trial for allowing the Bollinger baby to die.[3]
He played himself in the eugenics propaganda movie, The Black Stork, a 1917 silent movie.[4]
Haiselden died while vacationing in Cuba on June 18, 1919 of a cerebral hemorrhage. [5]
[edit] Haiselden deaths by refusal of medical intervention
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- ^ a b c "Dr. Haiselden of Chicago Refuses to Operate to Save a Day-Old Infant. Physician, Who Acted Similarly in the Bollinger Case, Suspects Pre-Natal Influence.". New York Times. July 25, 1917. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E06E3DF103BE03ABC4D51DFB166838C609EDE. Retrieved 2008-12-28. "The day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Meter of 121 North Cicero Avenue, died today at the German-American Hospital, where Dr. Harry J. Haiselden refused to perform an operation which he acknowledged probably would save the child's life. Physician, Who Acted Similarly in the Bollinger Case, Suspects Pre-Natal Influence."
- ^ Edwin Black (2004). War Against the Weak. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1568583214. http://books.google.com/books?id=qYHscsPFF-wC. "At 4am on November 12 1915, a woman named Anna Bollinger gave birth at the German-American Hospital in Chicago. The baby was somewhat deformed and suffered from extreme intestinal and rectal abnormalities, as well as other complications. The delivering physicians awakened Dr Harry Haiselden, the hospital's chief of staff. Haiselden came in at once. He consulted with colleagues. There was great disagreement over whether the child could be saved. But Haiselden decided the baby was too afflicted and fundamentally not worth saving. It would be killed. The method: denial of treatment."
- ^ "Medical Society's Committee Against Bollinger Baby's Physician". New York Times. December 15, 1915. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E15FD355C13738DDDAC0994DA415B858DF1D3. Retrieved 2010-11-26. "Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, who refused to perform an operation on the Bollinger baby because he believed the child would be a hopeless defective, will be expelled from membership in the Chicago Medical Society if the council of that body approves the findings of the Ethical Relations Committee."
- ^ "The Black Stork". National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ba_shows.dir/children.dir/highlights/blacksto.html. Retrieved 2010-11-26. "The film was inspired by the sensational case of Dr. Harry Haiselden, a Chicago surgeon who convinced the parents of a newborn with multiple disabilities to let the child die instead of performing surgery that would save its life. In the film, Haiselden actually plays himself, a wise doctor who attends the birth of a child born with congenital syphilis -- incurable at the time and a major cause of congenital disabilities. Two other doctors interfere, out of personal pride and misplaced benevolence, and try to convince the woman to save the child's life. The woman is forced to choose."
- ^ "Dr. Haiselden Dead In Cuba. His Refusal to Operate on Baby Caused National Comment". New York Times. June 20, 1919. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60613F93C5E157A93C2AB178DD85F4D8185F9. Retrieved 2010-11-26. "Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, whose decision not to operate in an effort to 'save the life of a known as " Bolllnger baby," caused widespread comment, ..."
