Geneticizing disability: the Human Genome Project and the commodification of self.

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This article explores the potential impact upon people with disability of some of the technological information being uncovered by the Human Genome Project. While the project has been promoted as promising positive benefits to society, its effect, in our present values climate, is potentially damaging. While we can map impairment, we cannot, as yet, cure it. And, in a society which embraces values such as...

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