Description
| Product ID: | 9780228019008 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Beautiful Unwanted |
| Subtitle: | Down Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and Bioethics |
| Authors: | Author: Chris Kaposy |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Ethics and moral philosophy, Disability: social aspects, Medical sociology, History of medicine, Bioethics, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, Parenting: advice and issues, Ethics & moral philosophy, Disability: social aspects, Medical sociology, History of medicine, Bio-ethics, Coping with disability, Advice on parenting |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Chris Kaposy reflects on parenting his son with Down syndrome in the midst of a supposed disappearance of people with this condition. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents decades-old bioethical controversies, revealing the prehistory that has shaped current attitudes toward intellectual disability. |
| Imprint Name: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Publisher Name: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-15 |