| Description |
xvi, 371 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Hastings Center studies in ethics
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Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Prenatal diagnosis. |
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Prenatal diagnosis -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Added Author |
Parens, Erik, 1957-
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Asch, Adrienne.
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| ISBN |
0878408045 paper acid-free paper |
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0878408037 cloth acid-free paper |
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