LibGuides: Primary Sources: Eugenics: Baby Bollinger

Online Sources: Baby Bollinger

Baby Dies as did Boy
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: Werder Called Hopelessly Defective at German-American Hospital FOR HAISELDEN
Coroner's Physician Says He Will Recommend That Jury Grant Complete Vindication.
Correspondence - The Case of the Bollinger Baby
Disability History Museum--Library
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Essay by Helen Keller: "Dr. Haiselden's Service to Society in Allowing the Bollinger Baby to Die"
INQUEST IS ORDERED IN CONDEMNED BABY CASE
Jury Clears, Yet Condemns Dr. Haiselden
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STATEMENT ON THE BOLLINGER BABY, NOVEMBER 18, 1915 (Jane Addams)
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Addams denounces Dr. H. J. Haiselden who refused to operate on a defective infant on the request of its parents.
“Physicians’ juries for defective babies” (Letter written by Helen Keller)

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