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In it, George Estreich--an award-winning poet and memoirist, and the father of a young woman with Down syndrome--delves into popular representations of cutting-edge biotech: websites advertising next-generation prenatal tests, feature articles on three-parent IVF, a scientist's memoir of constructing a semisynthetic cell, and more. As Estreich shows, each new application of biotechnology is accompanied by a persuasive story, one that minimizes downsides and promises enormous benefits. In this story, people with disabilities are both invisible and essential: a key promise of new technologies is that disability will be repaired or prevented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn chapters that blend personal narrative and scholarship, Estreich restores disability to our narratives of technology. He also considers broader themes: the place of people with disabilities in a world built for the able; the echoes of eugenic history in the genomic present; and the equation of intellect and human value. Examining the stories we tell ourselves, the fables already creating our futures, Estreich argues that, given biotech that can select and shape who we are, we need to imagine, as broadly as possible, what it means to belong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728051970321,"sku":"NGR9780262039567","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346359161105,"sku":"CIN0262039567G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53264588308753,"sku":"CIN0262039567VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262039567.jpg?v=1751389019"},{"product_id":"shape-of-the-eye-book-george-estreich-9780870745676","title":"The Shape of the Eye","description":"Writer George Estreich describes how raising a child with Down syndrome impacted everything else in his life, including his approach to writing and the way he now perceives other events in his own life and in the lives of his family members.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49888805978385,"sku":"CIN0870745670G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53116075049233,"sku":"CIN0870745670VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0870745670.jpg?v=1751045040"},{"product_id":"shape-of-the-eye-book-george-estreich-9780399163340","title":"The Shape of the Eye","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir.\"--PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents \"Better Books for a Better World\"--the Silver Award in the category of Parenting \/Family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome, or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In this powerful memoir, George Estreich, a poet and stay-at-home dad, tells his daughter's story, reflecting on her inheritance --- from the literal legacy of her genes, to the family history that precedes her, to the Victorian physician John Langdon Down's diagnostic error of \"Mongolian idiocy.\" Against this backdrop, Laura takes her place in the Estreich family as a unique child, quirky and real, loved for everything ordinary and extraordinary about her.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In this wise and moving memoir, George Estreich tells the story of his family as his younger daughter is diagnosed with Down syndrome and they are thrust into an unfamiliar world. Estreich writes with a poet's eye and gift of language, weaving this personal journey into the larger history of his family, exploring the deep and often hidden connections between the past and the present. Engaging and unsentimental, \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e taught me a great deal. It is a story I found myself thinking about long after I'd finished the final pages.\" --\u003cb\u003eKim Edwards, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Keeper's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A poignant, beautifully written, and intensely moving memoir\" --\u003cb\u003eAbraham Verghese, author of \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Shape of the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir of a father's love for his daughter, his struggle to understand her disability, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth.  Estreich is raw and honest and draws us each into a new view of what it means to be 'human' and what it means to be 'different.'  This book is beautifully written, poetically insightful, and personally transformative. To read it is to rethink everything and to be happy because of the journey.\" --\u003cb\u003eTimothy P. 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Because he's opened his home and heart in this memoir, we are privileged to witness in chaotic, heart-wrenching, joyous detail what it means to have and to love a child with Down syndrome.\" --\u003cb\u003eMarcia Childress, Associate Professor of Medical Education (Medical Humanities), University of Virginia School of Medicine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350063878417,"sku":"CIN0399163344VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351824306449,"sku":"CIN0399163344G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53029629296913,"sku":"GOR008850079","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0399163344.jpg?v=1751071376"},{"product_id":"fables-and-futures-book-george-estreich-9780262052948","title":"Fables and Futures","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow new biomedical technologies-from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques-require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people. 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