Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)
Contributors: Erik Parens (Editor); Adrienne Asch (Editor)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780878408030
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Medical Ethics; Medical genetics; Pregnancy & Childbirth; Law; Human Fertilization In Vitro; Medical; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Moral and ethical aspects; Legal status, laws, etc; General; Prenatal diagnosis; Ethics; Gynecology & Obstetrics
First sentence: The international project to sequence the human genome was undertaken in the expectation that knowing the sequence will offer new ways to understand and treat disease and disability.