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Prenatal testing and disability rights / edited by Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch

Published
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2000]
Copyright Date
©2000
Physical Description
xvi, 371 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Parens, Erik, 1957- and Asch, Adrienne

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Contents
The disability rights critique of prenatal genetic testing : reflections and recommendations / Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch -- The current state of prenatal genetic testing in the United States / Cynthia M. Powell -- Somewhere a mockingbird / Deborah Kent -- Why I had amniocentesis / Mary Ann Baily -- The experience of disability in families : a synthesis of research and parent narratives / Philip M. Ferguson, Alan Gartner, and Dorothy K. Lipsky -- Ways to limit prenatal testing / William Ruddick -- Disability, prenatal testing, and selective abortion / Bonnie Steinbock -- Technology and the genetic imaginary : prenatal testing and the construction of disability / Bruce Jennings -- Why members of the disability community oppose prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton -- On the expressivity and ethics of selective abortion for disability : conversations with my son / Eva Feder Kittay with Leo Kittay -- The meaning of the act : reflections on the expressive force of reproductive decision making and policies / James Lindemann Nelson -- Assessing the expressive character of prenatal testing : the choices made or the choices made available? / Nancy Press -- Why I haven't changed my mind about prenatal diagnosis : reflections and refinements / Adrienne Asch -- Drawing lines : notes for policymakers / Dorothy C. Wertz -- Line drawing : developing professional standards for prenatal diagnostic services / Jeffrey R. Botkin -- Prenatal genetic testing and the courts / Pilar N. Ossorio -- Reflections from the trenches : one doctor's encounter with disability rights arguments / Steven J. Ralston -- What difference the disability community arguments should make for the delivery of prenatal genetic information / Barbara Bowles Biesecker and Lori Hamby.
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ISBN
0878408037 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0878408045 (paper : acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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