Title Defiant birth : women who resist medical eugenics / [edited by] Melinda Tankard Reist.

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 342 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index.
Summary	Explores what is means to have "less-than-perfect pregnancies" and "genetically different babies." This book tells the personal stories of women who have resisted medical eugenics - women who were told they shouldn't have babies because of perceived disability in themselves, or shouldn't have babies because of some imperfection in the child.
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Subject	Eugenics.
	Eugenics.
	Pregnancy -- Complications.
	Pregnancy -- Complications.
	Women with disabilities.
	Women with disabilities.
	Fetus -- Abnormalities.
	Fetus -- Abnormalities.
	Eugenics.
	Congenital Abnormalities.
	Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
	Mothers -- psychology.
	Pregnancy Complications.
	Prenatal Diagnosis.
Genre/Form	Personal Narrative.
	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
	Biographies.
Added Author	Tankard Reist, Melinda.
Other Form:	Print version: Defiant birth. North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex Press, 2006 9781876756598 1876756594 (DLC) 2007386565 (OCoLC)69373271
ISBN	9781742190488 (electronic book)
	1742190480 (electronic book)
	9781876756598 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions)
	1876756594 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions)