Down syndrome: Coercion and eugenics

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 708-710

  McCabe, Linda L ^a,b,c   McCabe, Edward R B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

coercion; discrimination; Down syndrome; eugenics; trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL GENETICS; DOWN SYNDROME; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL GENETICS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; CALIFORNIA; COERCION; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DOWN SYNDROME; EUGENICS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREJUDICE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051791367     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GIM.0b013e318216db64     Document Type: Review

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