Naujausi A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z
Autoriai: JOAN ROTHSCHILD
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ISBN: 0-253-21760-1
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097678
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Every parent wants healthy normal child. Science and technology have now made this increasingly possible. But progress comes with a price. This richly informative account shows how the human striving for perfection has influenced the practice of reproductive medicine. Tracing its roots from Enlightenment thought through the biological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Joan Rothschild shows how the dream of human perfection masks a darker motivation to eliminate all that does not meet its standards. She points to the thousands of decisions about prenatal testing that are made each day in the doctor's office, the context in which they occur, and how they add up to the discourse of the perfect and imperfect child. She argues that the mainstream bioethics community has been ineffective in raising appropriate questions. The result has been support for the status quo. To combat this tendency, Rothschild draws upon counter-voices from medicine and feminist ethics, as well as from pregnant women and people with disabilities. She proposes an informed ethical approach for evaluating the use of prenatal testing, genetic intervention, and other reproductive technologies that is case-based and procreative.
vii Preface and Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1 Beautifully Perfect: The Technological Dream
PART ONE
ORIGINS: ENLIGHTENMENT, EVOLUTIONARY, AND EUGENIC DISCOURSES
ONE
13 The Perfectibility of Man
TWO
29 The "Perfect Race"
THREE
52 Reformed Eugenics and Medical Genetics
PART TWO
FRAMING THE DISCOURSE OF THE PERFECT CHILD
FOUR
71 The Tools
FIVE
93 The Doctors: On the Trail of the Defective Fetus
SIX
111 The Parents: Only the Best and the Brightest
SEVEN
132 Discourses of the Imperfect
PART THREE
COUNTER-DISCOURSES
EIGHT
157 Bioethics Discourse and Reproductive Practice
NINE
188 Sites of Resistance
TEN
214 Transforming the Dream of the Perfect Child
229 Notes
301 Select Bibliography
329 Index
