The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive

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

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 â€œinferiorâ€ 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 eugenicsâ€™ same discriminatory practices.
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In this book, Daar asserts how barriers that block certain peopleâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-02-01
Format Kindle eBook

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