Handle with care
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Jodi Picoult.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9780743296410
Subjects: Osteogenesis imperfecta -- Fiction; Wrongful life -- Fiction; Medical care, Cost of -- Fiction; Parents of children with disabilities -- Fiction; Mothers -- Psychology -- Fiction; Physician and patient -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O'Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life.

Willow O'Keefe is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease, which means she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, and a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to cover medical expenses, Charlotte decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician for the monetary payouts [compensation?] which might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But it means that Charlotte has to say in a court of law that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she'd known about the disability in advance. And the obstetrician she's suing isn't just her physician -- it's her best friend. Handle With Care is an absorbing narrative which also questions the basis of medical ethics and of personal morality. What rights do parents or doctors have to terminate a life? How disabled is too disabled? As a parent, how far would you go to save someone you love?