Choices, reasons and feelings

This paper explores contemporary policies and practices surrounding prenatal diagnosis, and seeks to challenge positive or simplistic readings of these modern biomedical technologies by asking questions such as: what about feelings? How far is choice real? Can disability be eliminated? How will diag...

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Xuất bản năm:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/alterjdr,
Tác giả chính: Shakespeare, Thomas William
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Anglais
Được phát hành: Alter 2026
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Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt:This paper explores contemporary policies and practices surrounding prenatal diagnosis, and seeks to challenge positive or simplistic readings of these modern biomedical technologies by asking questions such as: what about feelings? How far is choice real? Can disability be eliminated? How will diagnosis change in the future? Discussion of lived experience of diagnosis is required to put ethical or political debates in context.