Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center

Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)
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As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal careâ€•it helps parents have healthy babies. But prenatal tests have been criticized by the disability rights community, which contends that advances in science should be directed at improving their lives, not preventing them. Used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with mental or physical impairments, prenatal tests arguably reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities.

In these essays, people on both sides of the issue engage in an honest and occasionally painful debate about prenatal testing and selective abortion. The contributors include both people who live with and people who theorize about disabilities, scholars from the social sciences and humanities, medical geneticists, genetic counselors, physicians, and lawyers. Although the essayists don't arrive at a consensus over the disability community's objections to prenatal testing and its consequences, they do offer recommendations for ameliorating some of the problems associated with the practice.
Country USA
Brand Georgetown University Press
Manufacturer Georgetown University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780878408047
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EANs 9780878408047
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)

Country	USA
Brand	Georgetown University Press
Manufacturer	Georgetown University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780878408047
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780878408047
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00