The new eugenics : selective breeding in an era of reproductive technologies

The Resource The new eugenics : selective breeding in an era of reproductive technologies
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The new eugenics : selective breeding in an era of reproductive technologies
Title remainder
selective breeding in an era of reproductive technologies
Statement of responsibility
Judith Daar
Title variation
Selective breeding in an era of reproductive technologies
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of 'inferior' genetic strains, ultimately came to be regarded as the great shame of the Progressive movement. Judith Daar, a prominent expert on the intersection of law and medicine, argues that current attitudes toward the potential users of modern assisted reproductive technologies threaten to replicate eugenics' same discriminatory practices. In this book, Daar asserts how barriers that block certain people's access to reproductive technologies are often founded on biases rooted in notions of class, race, and marital status. As a result, poor, minority, unmarried, disabled, and LGBT individuals are denied technologies available to well off nonminority heterosexual applicants. An original argument on a highly emotional and important issue, this work offers a surprising departure from more familiar arguments on the issue as it warns physicians, government agencies, and the general public against repeating the mistakes of the past"--Book jacket
Cataloging source
BTCTA
Dewey number
346.7301/7
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2017 C-324
  • WQ 33 AA1

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