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Handle with Care

Can you mend EVERYTHING that breaks?

By Jodi Picoult

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| Paperback | 9781741757866

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Willow O'Keefe is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which means she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, and a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to cover medical expenses, her mother Charlotte decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetContinue

Willow O'Keefe is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which means she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, and a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to cover medical expenses, her mother Charlotte decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician for compensation that might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow.

But it means Charlotte has to say in a court of law that she would have terminated the pregnancy is she'd known about the disability in advance. And the obstetrician she's suing isn't just her physician - she's her best friend.

'Handle with Care' is an absorbing narrative that questions the basis of medical ethics and of personal morality. What rights do parents or doctors have to terminate a life? How disabled is too disabled? As a parent, how far would you go to save someone you love?

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  • Handle with Care By Jodi Picoult

    Reproductive choice. Disabilities. Divorce. Cutting. Our tort-happy nation. Jodi Picoult has never been one to shy away from hot-button issues. But in her newest novel, Handle With Care, she out-Picoults herself by tackling all of the above-mentioned ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - HANDLE WITH CARE by Jodi Picoult

    “People were always saying they’d love any baby that came along, but that wasn’t necessarily true. Sometimes, it really did come down to the particular child in question. There had to be a reason why blond-haired, blue-eyed babies got plucked out of ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 479 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 174175786X
  • ISBN-13: 9781741757866
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2009
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