Choices and rights: Eugenics, genetics and disability equality

Disability and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 665-681

  Shakespeare, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FREEDOM; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL GENETICS; PARENT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ABORTION, LEGAL; COERCION; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; EUGENICS; FEMALE; FREEDOM; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC SCREENING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; MASS SCREENING; PARENTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PREJUDICE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL VALUES; STEREOTYPING; VALUE OF LIFE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0032195214     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599826452     Document Type: Article

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