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Fables and Futures - Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Hardcover)
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Fables and Futures - Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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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 we square new
biotech advances with the real but fragile gains for people with
disabilities-especially when their voices are all but absent from
the conversation? This book explores that conversation, the
troubled territory where biotechnology and disability meet. In it,
George Estreich-an award-winning poet and memoirist, and the father
of a young woman with Down syndrome-delves into popular
representations of cutting-edge biotech: websites advertising
next-generation prenatal tests, feature articles on "three-parent
IVF," a scientist's memoir of constructing a semisynthetic cell,
and more. As Estreich shows, each new application of biotechnology
is accompanied by a persuasive story, one that minimizes downsides
and promises enormous benefits. In this story, people with
disabilities are both invisible and essential: a key promise of new
technologies is that disability will be repaired or prevented. In
chapters that blend personal narrative and scholarship, Estreich
restores disability to our narratives of technology. He also
considers broader themes: the place of people with disabilities in
a world built for the able; the echoes of eugenic history in the
genomic present; and the equation of intellect and human value.
Examining the stories we tell ourselves, the fables already
creating our futures, Estreich argues that, given biotech that can
select and shape who we are, we need to imagine, as broadly as
possible, what it means to belong.
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