Fables and Futures - Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Estreich GeorgePevná vazba
Fables and Futures - Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Estreich GeorgePevná vazba How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require…
Specifikacia Fables and Futures - Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Estreich GeorgePevná vazba
Fables and Futures - Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Estreich GeorgePevná vazba
How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong.From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people. How will we square new biotech advances with the real but fragile gains for people with disabilities--especially when their voices are all but absent from the conversation?This book explores that conversation, the troubled territory where biotechnology and disability meet. That power implies a question about belonging: which people, which variations, will we welcome?
In it, George Estreich--an award-winning poet and memoirist, and the father of a young woman with Down syndrome--delves into popular representations of cutting-edge biotech:
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