The dream of the perfect child / Joan Rothschild.

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2005], ©2005.

x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The perfectibility of man -- The "perfect race" -- Reformed eugenics and medical genetics -- The tools -- The doctors : on the trail of the defective fetus -- The parents : only the best and the brightest -- Discourses of the imperfect -- Bioethics discourse and reproductive practice -- Sites of resistance -- Transforming the dream of the perfect child.