TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daar,Judith
TI  - The new eugenics: selective breeding in an era of reproductive technologies 
SN  - 9780300137156 (hbk) :
U1  - 346.73017 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Human reproductive technology
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Discrimination in medical care
KW  - Eugenics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of 'inferior' genetic strains, ultimately came to be regarded as the great shame of the Progressive movement. Judith Daar, a prominent expert on the intersection of law and medicine, argues that current attitudes toward the potential users of modern assisted reproductive technologies threaten to replicate eugenics' same discriminatory practices. In this book, Daar asserts how barriers that block certain people's access to reproductive technologies are often founded on biases rooted in notions of class, race, and marital status. As a result, poor, minority, unmarried, disabled, and LGBT individuals are denied technologies available to well off nonminority heterosexual applicants. An original argument on a highly emotional and important issue, this work offers a surprising departure from more familiar arguments on the issue as it warns physicians, government agencies, and the general public against repeating the mistakes of the past"--Book jacket
ER  -