Title The dream of the perfect child / Joan Rothschild.

Publication Info.	Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2005]
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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	616.042 R847D	Check Shelf

Description	x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series	Bioethics and the humanities
	Bioethics and the humanities.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The perfectibility of man -- The "perfect race" -- Reformed eugenics and medical genetics -- The tools -- The doctors : on the trail of the defective fetus -- The parents : only the best and the brightest -- Discourses of the imperfect -- Bioethics discourse and reproductive practice -- Sites of resistance -- Transforming the dream of the perfect child.
Subject	Abnormalities, Human -- Prevention.
	Genetic disorders -- Prevention.
	Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
	Reproductive health -- Social aspects.
	Eugenics -- History.
	Perfection.
	Bioethics.
	Abnormalities -- prevention & control.
	Genetics, Medical -- ethics.
	Infant, Newborn, Diseases -- prevention & control.
	Prenatal Diagnosis.
	Reproductive Medicine -- ethics.
ISBN	0253345650 cloth alkaline paper
	9780253345653 cloth alkaline paper
	0253217601 paperback alkaline paper
	9780253217608 paperback alkaline paper

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