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Defiant Birth : Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics.
Explores what is means to have "less-than-perfect pregnancies" and "genetically different babies." This book tells the personal stories of women who have resisted medical eugenics - women who were told they shouldn't have babies because of perceived disability in themselves,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Spinifex Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The medical gaze; Genetic screening in context: Towards a eugenics civilization; Lack of choice and the coercive power of testing; The routinisation of testing; The right to choose not to know; The 'benevolent tyranny of expertise'; No assessment of the cost to women's health; Questions about risks of ultrasound and amniocentesis; Agonising decisions based on questionable findings; Lack of knowledge among medical professionals; 'They turn the baby into a monster!': Lack of information on disability and support.
- Dehumanising and stigmatising labelsThe rise of eugenicist thought; Birth control and eugenics; Eugenics and extermination; The new 'nice' eugenics; Testing and termination as a bargain: 'Units of handicapped prevented'; The quest for perfection and the gospel of gene salvation; Genes, destiny and discrimination; 'How dare you?': The defiance of disabled women; What is normal?; Notes; THE STORY OF LAYIAH: MY WONDER CHILD; ALL IS RIGHT WITH MY WORLD; IT'S ABOUT LOVE; Why carry a dying child? A mother's perspective; YOUR BABY WILL DIE: THE STORY OF GRACE; GIVING LIFE A CHANCE.
- FINDING JOY IN THE WEAK AMONG US'THE BEST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE': HIV-POSITIVE WOMEN ON PREGNANCY AND BIRTH IN AUSTRALIA; MY CHILDREN HAVE COMPENSATED ME TENFOLD; THE 'STANDARD OF CARE' WOULD BE TO ABORT MY UNBORN CHILD; LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF MÖNCHBERG; Notes; SO GLAD I LISTENED TO MY HEART; GABRIEL WAS GOING TO DIE, BUT FIRST HE WAS GOING TO LIVE; Support for continuing a pregnancy: Perinatal hospice; I WOULDN'T SWAP THEM FOR ANYTHING; THIS BABY WOULD BE LOVED; THE BLESSINGS FAR OUTWEIGH THE SORROWS; JUST CRASH THROUGH IT; GO WITH YOUR INSTINCTS.
- THEY TOLD ME MY CHILD WOULD WANT A NEW MOTHERPostcript; THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FACE ON EARTH; Afterword; Genetic screening and abortion: Ratifying social prejudice through reproductive 'choices'; The new genetics and apartheid; Blaming the individual; The erosion of empathy; Losing our humanity; Mutual interdependence; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.