Homo Sapiens 1900

Homo Sapiens 1900 is a 1998 documentary directed by Peter Cohen, about various eugenics methods that were in practice in Europe during the first part of the 20th century.

Eugenics offers two approaches positive eugenics, and negative eugenics. Positive eugenics aims towards creating better humans by careful mating, based on ones genetic makeup. Negative eugenics, on the other hand, seeks to prevent those deemed inferior from reproducing, and thus not impeding mans evolution.The documentary begins with a clipping of a 1916 American movie that trumpets the creed of eugenics. In The Black Stork, the lead character, physician Dr. Harry Haiselden playing himself, refuses to give a newborn, mildly deformed baby a lifesaving operation or, instead, makes the operation fatal. There are times when saving a life is a greater crime than taking one, he proclaims. It soon transpires that The Black Storks climactic scene was, far from being merely fiction, actually a reenactment of one of Dr.Haiseldens reallife cases, where he let a baby die because he considered the deformed baby to be a burden on society. ........

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