Marketing “healthy” babies
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-15-2019
ISSN
0036-8075
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Language
en-US
Abstract
In 2011, poet and writer George Estreich wrote about the impact of biotechnology on family life in his first book, The Shape of the Eye. The memoir centers on how his family's life was changed, and enriched, by the birth of his second child, Laura, who has Down syndrome. Laura made his second book possible. In Fables and Futures, Estreich goes beyond the personal to describe the ways that genetic technologies affect society and the stories the promoters of such technologies tell about them. These “fables” affect not only how we view new technologies but also how we view normality and the rights and welfare of humans whom we have labeled as having various “disabilities.”
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
Marketing “healthy” babies
,
in
363
Science
1158
(2019).
Available at:
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw5998
