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ARTICLES:

Richard Dawkins Gets it all Wrong, Yet Again
by George Estreich, Salon
September 25th, 2014

Australian Couple Leaves Down Syndrome Baby with Thai Surrogate
by Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald
July 31st, 2014

 

A Disability Critique: Why Members of the Disability Community Oppose Prenatal Diagnosis
Marsha Saxton, law.miami.edu
2012

Making Embryos Healthy or Making Healthy Embryos
Adrienne Asch, The healthy embryo
2010

Unspeakable Conversations
Harriet McBryde-Johnson, The New York Times Magazine
February 16, 2003.

Disability and Bioethical Debates: Speciesism and Moral Status
Peter Singer, Metaphilosophy 40
July 2009
pp.567-581.

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VIDEOS:

Markets and “Symbolic Harms”
Adrienne Asch, The Tarrytown Meetings, 2010

George Estreich Web Interview
George Estreich - June 3, 2013 Talking Biopolitics Web Interview

Regan Brashear Web Interview
Regan Brashear - October 3, 2013 Talking Biopolitics Web Interview

 

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BOOKS:

 

The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era
Lennard Davis
In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the twenty-first century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities.

 

The Shape of the Eye
George Estreich
In this wise and moving memoir, George Estreich tells the story of his family as his younger daughter, Laura, is diagnosed with Down Syndrome and they are thrust into an unexpected, unfamiliar world. . . .

 

Mendel's Dwarf 
Simon Mawer 
Like his great-great-great-uncle, geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert struggles to unlock the secrets of heredity and genetic determinism. However, Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he was born with achondroplasia--he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate for love and acceptance, and when he finds both in Jean, a shy librarian, he stumbles upon an opportunity to correct the injustice of his own, at least to him, unlucky genes.

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