
Defiant Birth
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- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The medical gaze
- Genetic screening in context: Towards a eugenics civilization
- Lack of choice and the coercive power of testing
- The routinisation of testing
- The right to choose not to know
- The 'benevolent tyranny of expertise'
- No assessment of the cost to women's health
- Questions about risks of ultrasound and amniocentesis
- Agonising decisions based on questionable findings
- Lack of knowledge among medical professionals
- 'They turn the baby into a monster!': Lack of information on disability and support
- Dehumanising and stigmatising labels
- The rise of eugenicist thought
- Birth control and eugenics
- Eugenics and extermination
- The new 'nice' eugenics
- Testing and termination as a bargain: 'Units of handicapped prevented'
- The quest for perfection and the gospel of gene salvation
- Genes, destiny and discrimination
- 'How dare you?': The defiance of disabled women
- What is normal?
- Notes
- THE STORY OF LAYIAH: MY WONDER CHILD
- ALL IS RIGHT WITH MY WORLD
- IT'S ABOUT LOVE
- Why carry a dying child? A mother's perspective
- YOUR BABY WILL DIE: THE STORY OF GRACE
- GIVING LIFE A CHANCE
- FINDING JOY IN THE WEAK AMONG US
- 'THE BEST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE': HIV-POSITIVE WOMEN ON PREGNANCY AND BIRTH IN AUSTRALIA
- MY CHILDREN HAVE COMPENSATED ME TENFOLD
- THE 'STANDARD OF CARE' WOULD BE TO ABORT MY UNBORN CHILD
- LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF MÖNCHBERG
- Notes
- SO GLAD I LISTENED TO MY HEART
- GABRIEL WAS GOING TO DIE, BUT FIRST HE WAS GOING TO LIVE
- Support for continuing a pregnancy: Perinatal hospice
- I WOULDN'T SWAP THEM FOR ANYTHING
- THIS BABY WOULD BE LOVED
- THE BLESSINGS FAR OUTWEIGH THE SORROWS
- JUST CRASH THROUGH IT
- GO WITH YOUR INSTINCTS
- THEY TOLD ME MY CHILD WOULD WANT A NEW MOTHER
- Postcript
- THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FACE ON EARTH
- Afterword
- Genetic screening and abortion: Ratifying social prejudice through reproductive 'choices'
- The new genetics and apartheid
- Blaming the individual
- The erosion of empathy
- Losing our humanity
- Mutual interdependence
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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