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Title Quality of life and human difference : genetic testing, health care, and disability / edited by David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach, Robert Wachbroit.

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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	618.32042 Q25 2005	---	Available

Description	xi, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
Series	Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Assessing quality of life / Robert Wachbroit -- Predicting genetic disability while commodifying health / Anita Silvers -- Preventing genetically transmitted disabilities while respecting persons with disabilities / Dan W. Brock -- Nord -- Preventing the existence of people with disabilities / Jeff McMahan -- Where is the sin in synecdoche / Adrienne Asch and David Wasserman -- Social context of individual choice / Tom Shakespeare -- Disability and health systems assessment / Jerome Bickenbach.
Subject	Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Prenatal diagnosis -- Social aspects.
	Fetus -- Abnormalities -- Diagnosis.
	Genetic screening -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Genetic screening -- Social aspects.
	Medical ethics.
	Quality of life.
	Prenatal Diagnosis -- ethics.
	Genetic Screening -- ethics.
	Quality of Life.
	Disabled Persons.
	Abortion, Eugenic -- ethics.
Added Author	Wasserman, David T.
	Wachbroit, Robert Samuel.
	Bickenbach, Jerome Edmund.
ISBN	0521539714 (pbk.)
	0521832012
Standard No.	NLGGC 27211037X