Choosing Down Syndrome
Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.The rate at which parents choose to terminate a pregnancy when prenatal tests indicate that the fetus has Down syndrome is between 60 and 90 percent. In Choosing Down Syndrome, Chris Kaposy offers a carefully reasoned ethical argument in favor of choosing to have such a child. Arguing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy makes the case that there is a common social bias against cognitive disability that influences decisions about prenatal testing and terminating pregnancies, and that more peopl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-34573-6
- EAN: 9780262345736
- Produktnummer: 34355099
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 307 KB
Über den Autor
Chris Kaposy is Associate Professor of Bioethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University, Newfoundland.
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