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Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible
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Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible

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Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary examples-from doctors’ early medical reports to YouTube videos-Shelley Z. Reuter shows that true agency in genetic decision-making can be exercised only from a place of cultural inclusion. Choice in this context is in fact a kind of unfreedom-a moral duty to act that is not really agency at all.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
1 November 2016
Pages
288
ISBN
9780816699964

Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary examples-from doctors’ early medical reports to YouTube videos-Shelley Z. Reuter shows that true agency in genetic decision-making can be exercised only from a place of cultural inclusion. Choice in this context is in fact a kind of unfreedom-a moral duty to act that is not really agency at all.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
1 November 2016
Pages
288
ISBN
9780816699964