Title: Handle with care
Subtitle: a novel
Description: In Jodi Picoult's #1 international bestseller she explores the moral dilemmas faced by the parents of a severely disabled child. When faced with the reality of a child who will be disabled, at which point should an obstetrician counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love?Willow O'Keefe is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or 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, her mother Charlotte decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician for the 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 - she'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?
Subjects: Wrongful life, Cost of medical care in fiction, Psychology, Wrongful life in fiction, Osteogenesis imperfecta, Mothers, Osteogenesis imperfecta in fiction, Cost of Medical care, Fiction, Physician and patient in fiction, Parents of children with disabilities in fiction, Moral and ethical aspects of Physician and patient, Physician and patient, Mothers in fiction, Parents of children with disabilities, Literature, Large type books, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-03-22, New York Times bestseller, Family relationships, Medical malpractice, Domestic fiction, Moral and ethical aspects, Medical personnel, Malpractice, Medical care, Costs, Parents of handicapped children, Physician-patient relationship, Fiction, psychological, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Physicians, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction