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Disability, Genetic Counseling, and Medical Education: From Eugenics to Anti-Ableism

27 Mar 2025

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Genetic counselors have a complex relationship with disability communities due to both the legacy of eugenics and their ongoing role counseling families about prenatal testing. Drawing on a social model of disability and highlighting mistaken assumptions about quality of life for people with disabilities, scholars and activists have raised concerns about genetic technologies that strive to eliminate disability....

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PMID: 40146999
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-022024-010951

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