Disability rights meet DNA research: the case of CRISPR | Marsha Saxton | Nobel Conference

Marsha Saxton, PhD presenting "Disability Rights Meets DNA Research" at the 53rd annual Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2017.

Dr. Saxton’s lecture provides a disability studies perspectives on prenatal genetic testing.

Saxton is the director of research and training at the World Institute on Disability and also an instructor in disability studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written three books, two films, and more than one hundred articles and book chapters about disability rights, personal assistance, women's health, employment, violence prevention, and genetic screening issues. She has written extensively on the topic of disability rights and selective abortion.
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