| Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights Contributor(s): Parens, Erik (Editor), Asch, Adrienne (Editor), Parens, Erik (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0878408045 ISBN-13: 9780878408047 Publisher: Georgetown University Press OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: In this collection of thought-provoking essays, people on both sides of the prenatal-testing issue engage in an honest, and occasionally painful, debate about the 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Pregnancy & Childbirth - Family & Relationships |
| Dewey: 176 |
| LCCN: 00026361 |
| Series: Hastings Center Studies in Ethics |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.95" W x 8.93" (1.38 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |