Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

by George Estreich

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039567
• ISBN13: 9780262039567
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"