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The Dream Of The Perfect Child by Rothschild, Joan is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Dream Of The Perfect Child about?

<p>"Others have addressed the societal implications of contemplating ‘the perfect child’ but no one has written about it so poignantly, so compellingly, and so beautifully.... The best discussion of bioethics and reproductive practices I’ve seen." —Carole Browner, University of California, Los Angeles</p> <p>"Science and technology, medical professionals, and parents meet in the doctor’s office. This privatized setting is the site for individual decisions: whether to test or not, whether to keep a pregnancy or terminate it, and for which diagnosed ‘defect.’ Each decision becomes another judgment as to which conditions, and which children, are acceptable or not. As they aggregate over time, individual decisions add up to a selection process, marking the imperfect, those who may be dispensed with, while certifying those worthy to be born. This process constitutes the discourse of the perfect child." —from the Introduction</p> <p>Every parent wants a healthy, normal child, and scientific and technological advances have now made this increasingly possible to achieve. But progress comes with a price. Tracing its roots from Enlightenment thought through the biological discoveries of the

Author

Rothschild, Joan

Publisher

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253345653

Subjects

Medical, Technology, Nursing