Dr. Haiselden Character Analysis

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The most important thing about this whole story is that Americans died because their doctors felt they were genetically unfit to live. Value judgments have always been central parts of defining disease, deciding what to do about it. It wasn 't simply that, in Dr. Haiselden 's day, bad science was corrupted by allowing values in. Dr. Haiselden and his supporters believed passionately in objectivity but in looking back at then, and the way in which their response to disease was shaped by their values. Trying to be purely objective won 't keep out values. Haiselden and his supporters were torn between passionate expressions of sympathy and love, versus, in the next breath, expressing contempt, hatred, fear and loathing for those born with