The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300137156)

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.

Author: Judith Daar
ISBN-10: 030013715X
ISBN-13: 9780300137156
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2017