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Prenatal Diagnosis and the Transformation of the Epistemic Space of Human Heredity (2013)

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume: 35, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 99-104
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

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The introduction of new techniques of prenatal diagnosis in the 1960s transformed already back then, and continues to transform, the epistemic space of human heredity. These techniques -- like karyotyping, amniocentesis, obstetrical ultrasound, and, more recently, analysis of free foetal DNA in maternal blood -- modify the way in which people influence the transmission of traits to their offspring and thus have the potential to define what a normal, acceptable, or valuable human being is.

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