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

 
9780878408047: Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0878408045 ISBN 13: 9780878408047
Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2000

Synopsis

As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care--it helps parents have healthy babies. But prenatal tests have been criticized by the disability rights community. 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, health care professionals, scholars, and members of the disability community debate the implications of prenatal testing for people with disabilities and for parent-child relationships generally.

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About the Author

Erik Parens is the associate for philosophical studies at The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York. Adrienne Asch is the Henry L. Luce Professor of Biology, Ethics and Human Reproduction at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0878408045
ISBN 13 
9780878408047
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
392
Editor
Parens Erik, Asch Adrienne

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