Download or read book Test of Fate written by Lynn Englund and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the of Fate series, Test of Fate, continues the story of Evan Masters and Carla Jean C.J. MacFarlane. Set two years after Miracle of Fate, this novel follows Evan and C.J. continuing to explore life together as a couple very much in love. They decide to start a charitable foundation to broaden their reach and give back some of the good fortune they share. Not having any real experience in the non-profit arena, they hire a young woman named Jennifer Truman to run the foundation. Decisions about their future come to the forefront as C.J. struggles with Evan's desire to have children. With Evan at her side, she continues to search for her true place in the world. Filled with romance, drama, suspense and humor, Test of Fate allows the reader greater insight into Evan and C.J. as captivating, yet very much human, characters. When their relationship is subjected to the ultimate test, will their love be enough to survive?

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Download or read book Testing Fate written by Shelley Z. Reuter and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s world, responsible biocitizenship has become a new way of belonging in society. Individuals are expected to make “responsible” medical choices, including the decision to be screened for genetic disease. Paradoxically, we have even come to see ourselves as having the right to be responsible vis-à-vis the proactive mitigation of genetic risk. At the same time, the concept of genetic disease has become a new and powerful way of defining the boundaries between human groups. Tay-Sachs, an autosomal recessive disorder, is a case in point—with origins in the period of Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States and United Kingdom that spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it has a long and fraught history as a marker of Jewish racial difference. In Testing Fate, Shelley Z. Reuter asks: Can the biocitizen, especially one historically defined as a racialized and pathologized Other, be said to be exercising authentic, free choice in deciding whether to undertake genetic screening? Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary examples—doctors’ medical reports of Tay-Sachs since the first case was documented in 1881, the medical field’s construction of Tay-Sachs as a disease of Jewish immigrants, YouTube videos of children with Tay-Sachs that frame the disease as tragic disability avoidable through a simple genetic test, and medical malpractice suits since the test for the disease became available—Reuter shows that true agency in genetic decision-making can be exercised only from a place of cultural inclusion. Choice in this context is in fact a kind of unfreedom—a moral duty to act that is not really agency at all.

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