Overcoming the obstacles: a collaborative approach to informed consent in prenatal genetic screening.

“The social distance built into current ways of looking at the human body — the view of an objective scientist looking at another bodily object that is clearly separate and distinct — will be expanded to include a new type of social connectedness, where two human beings will be able to share their commonly felt experiences at their social membrane. In the new clinic, immunization from the emotional experiences of one’s fellow man will no longer be seen as either a vital necessity or a particularly virtuous aspect of scientific objectivity.” 1