Book ID: CBB291068959

The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies (2017)

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Daar, Judith (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 288 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Healey, Jenna Caitlin
Balistreri, Maurizio
Romano, Gabriella
Patrick Ellis
Hannah Nicole Patton
Mathiason, Jessica Lee
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Reproductive medicine
Eugenics
Reproduction
Discrimination
Medicine and ethics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
21st century
18th century
Places
Germany
United States
South Carolina (U.S.)
Barbados
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Cuba
Institutions
American Social Hygiene Association
United States. Department of Defense
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