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Screening Networks: Shared agendas in feminist and disability movement challenges to antenatal screening and abortion

JANICE MCLAUGHLIN School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
Pages 297-310 | Published online: 01 Jul 2010

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