The New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies

A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement 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.

ISBN:	9780300137156
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Published date:	04 Apr 2017
DEWEY:	616.69206
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvi, 265
Weight:	594g
Height:	244mm
Width:	166mm
Spine width:	28mm

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