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Reimagining Disability: The Screening Of Donor Gametes And Embryos In Ivf, Isabel Karpin, Roxanne Mykitiuk Oct 2020

Reimagining Disability: The Screening Of Donor Gametes And Embryos In Ivf, Isabel Karpin, Roxanne Mykitiuk

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In this article,we examine how disability is figured in the imaginaries that are given shape by the reproductive projects and parental desires facilitated by the bio-medical techniques and practices of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) that involve selection and screening for disability. We investigate how some users of ARTs understand and deploy these imaginaries in ways that are both concordant with and resistant to the understanding of disability embedded within the broader sociotechnical and social imaginaries. It is through users’ deliberations, choices, responses, and expectations that we come to understand how these imaginaries are perpetuated and resisted, and how maintaining them …


Genetic Duties, Jessica L. Roberts, Alexandra L. Foulkes Oct 2020

Genetic Duties, Jessica L. Roberts, Alexandra L. Foulkes

William & Mary Law Review

Most of our genetic information does not change, yet the results of our genetic tests might. Labs reclassify genetic variants in response to advances in genetic science. As a result, a person who took a test in 2010 could take the same test with the same lab in 2020 and get a different result. However, no legal duty requires labs or physicians to inform patients when a lab reclassifies a variant, even if the reclassification communicates clinically actionable information. This Article considers the need for such duties and their potential challenges. In so doing, it offers much-needed guidance to physicians …


Adverse Impact Of Predisposition Testing On Major Life Activities: Lessons From Brca 1/2testing, Katherine A. Schneider Jan 2000

Adverse Impact Of Predisposition Testing On Major Life Activities: Lessons From Brca 1/2testing, Katherine A. Schneider

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


What Should The Law Say About Disclosure Of Genetic Information To Relatives?, Ellen Wright Clayton Jan 1998

What Should The Law Say About Disclosure Of Genetic Information To Relatives?, Ellen Wright Clayton

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Family Disclosure In Genetic Testing For Cancer Susceptibility: Determinants And Consequences, Caryn Lerman, Beth N. Peshkin, Chanita Hughes, Claudine Isaacs Jan 1998

Family Disclosure In Genetic Testing For Cancer Susceptibility: Determinants And Consequences, Caryn Lerman, Beth N. Peshkin, Chanita Hughes, Claudine Isaacs

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


The Argument Against A Physician's Duty To Warn For Genetic Diseases: The Conflicts Created By Safer V. Estate Of Pack, Angela Liang Jan 1998

The Argument Against A Physician's Duty To Warn For Genetic Diseases: The Conflicts Created By Safer V. Estate Of Pack, Angela Liang

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Ethical Responsibilities Of Patients And Clinical Geneticists, Allen Buchanan Jan 1998

Ethical Responsibilities Of Patients And Clinical Geneticists, Allen Buchanan

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


The Law's Response To Reproductive Genetic Testing: Questioning Assumptions About Choice, Causation And Control, Karen H. Rothenberg Jan 1993

The Law's Response To Reproductive Genetic Testing: Questioning Assumptions About Choice, Causation And Control, Karen H. Rothenberg

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.