Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Parens, Erik, 1957-
• Asch, Adrienne.

Description

xvi, 371 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Hastings Center studies in ethics

Uniform Title

Hastings Center studies in ethics.

Subjects

• Ethics
• Prenatal Diagnosis
• Morals
• Prenatal diagnosis > Moral and ethical aspects
• Prenatal diagnosis > Legal status, laws, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch -- 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 and 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 Bielecker and Lori Hamby.

ISBN

• 0878408037 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0878408045 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

00026361

OCLC

• 43615470
• ocm43615470

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries