Book Review

摘要

In the age of prenatal screening and early intervention even at the molecular level, much hasbeen said about the politics of geneticisation, yet relatively little remains known about howthis politics actually shapes people’s experiences. In this exquisite book about the historyof Downs syndrome, which won the 2013 Dingle Prize by the British Society for the History ofScience, Wright shows us how people influenced by genetic self-knowledge and their familieshave come to creatively reshape their identities, and in the process, transform popular andscientific assumptions about the boundaries of human nature.