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George Estreich Fables and Futures (Hardback) MIT Press
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- Fables and Futures : Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Publication Name
- Fables and Futures
- Title
- Fables and Futures
- Subtitle
- Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0262039567
- EAN
- 9780262039567
- ISBN
- 9780262039567
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Science, Medical
- Topic
- Biotechnology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Children with Special Needs
- Release Date
- 19/03/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Series
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong. From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people. That power implies a question about belonging: which people, which variations, will we welcome? How will we square new biotech advances with the real but fragile gains for people with disabilities--especially when their voices are all but absent from the conversation? This book explores that conversation, the troubled territory where biotechnology and disability meet. In it, George Estreich--an award-winning poet and memoirist, and the father of a young woman with Down syndrome--delves into popular representations of cutting-edge biotech: websites advertising next-generation prenatal tests, feature articles on "three-parent IVF," a scientist's memoir of constructing a semisynthetic cell, and more. As Estreich shows, each new application of biotechnology is accompanied by a persuasive story, one that minimizes downsides and promises enormous benefits. In this story, people with disabilities are both invisible and essential: a key promise of new technologies is that disability will be repaired or prevented. In chapters that blend personal narrative and scholarship, Estreich restores disability to our narratives of technology. He also considers broader themes: the place of people with disabilities in a world built for the able; the echoes of eugenic history in the genomic present; and the equation of intellect and human value. Examining the stories we tell ourselves, the fables already creating our futures, Estreich argues that, given biotech that can select and shape who we are, we need to imagine, as broadly as possible, what it means to belong.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262039567
ISBN-13
9780262039567
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6038267189
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Book Title
Fables and Futures : Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Biotechnology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Children with Special Needs
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Family & Relationships, Science, Medical
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
18 Oz
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Tp248.2.E83 2019
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In Fables and Futures , Estreich goes beyond the personal to describe the ways that genetic technologies affect society and the stories the promoters of such technologies tell about them. These 'fables' affect not only how we view new technologies but also how we view normality and the rights and welfare of humans whom we have labeled as having various 'disabilities.' ... I recommend Fables and Futures to anyone who wants to seriously engage in the human genome editing debate at the society and species levels.-- Science -- This is a beautifully-written book which enables the reader to enter the author's world and view both the disability and genetic engineers' goal to eliminate it, with different eyes. Everyone who cares about making our society more compassionate should read it. -- The New Bioethics -- Rarely has any writer so elegantly transposed conversations squarely rooted in science and academia over the subjects of biotechnology and genome editing, and ground them in a moving conversation that considers the human aspect of our rapidly advancing world. -- The Corvallis Advocate --
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-027592
Dewey Decimal
660.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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