"Perfect" Babies, "Perfect" Motherhood: Lives of Mothers of Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities

by Gail Landsman (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $71.38

  Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of 'normal' and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.