Eugenics or empowered choice? Community issues arising from prenatal testing


Autoria(s): Parker, Malcolm H.; Forbes, Kevin L.; Findlay, Ian
Contribuinte(s)

M. Humphrey

Data(s)

01/02/2002

Resumo

The prevention of inherited disabilities is viewed in two contrasting ways – either as enhancing reproductive choice and improving population health, or as discriminating against disabled community members. We argue that modern clinical genetics, including preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), reflects a persistent and defensible desire by the community to prevent disability, rather than as increasing discrimination or threatening to produce a 'new eugenic' society. Screening should be presented as a distinct issue for decision-making about the prevention or acceptance of disability, rather than as a routinely accepted component of antenatal care. The community must improve its understanding of the experiences of those who manage disability, and continue to debate the issues of discrimination, selective genetic prevention and enhancement, reproductive freedom, and eugenics.

Identificador

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:62470

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Blackwell

Palavras-Chave #Obstetrics & Gynecology #Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis #C1 #321213 Human Bioethics #111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Tipo

Journal Article