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The dream of the perfect child

Title
The dream of the perfect child / Joan Rothschild.
Author
Rothschild, Joan.
Publication
Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2005.

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Description
x, 343 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Bioethics and the humanities
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The perfectibility of man -- The "perfect race" -- Reformed eugenics and medical genetics -- The tools -- The doctors : on the trail of the defective fetus -- The parents : only the best and the brightest -- Discourses of the imperfect -- Bioethics discourse and reproductive practice -- Sites of resistance -- Transforming the dream of the perfect child.
Call Number
JFE 05-12191
ISBN
  • 0253345650 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0253217601 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004024477
OCLC
56798754
Author
Rothschild, Joan.
Title
The dream of the perfect child / Joan Rothschild.
Imprint
Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2005.
Series
Bioethics and the humanities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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JFE 05-12191
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