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68more commensurate with worthy social norms related to socio-economic status,identity and behaviour. 1522.3.4 The Medico/Bio-Technological ModelA contemporary manifestation of the Medical model of disability can beviewed in the the Genetic or Bio-technological model of disability.In this model people with a disability are viewed as having an impairmentin the form of their ‘bad’ genes, and their disability elicits the social desire tohave those genes eliminated. 153 Whereas the eugenics movement sought throughthe sterilisation of women and minors to eliminate the possibility of reproductionfor people with disabilities, thus eliminating people with a disability as a socialgrouping, more recent advances in bio-technological research have led to thecapacity for science to manipulate human genes in such a way so as to ensure that‘bad’ genes that could lead to a person giving birth to a baby with a disability canbe eliminated. This gene manipulation could hypothetically, for example, take theform of: gene insertion – the insertion of copies of ‘normal’ genes into thechromosomes of diseased cells so as to eliminate a perceived inheritedgenetic deficit 154 gene modification – the chemical modification of defective DNAsequences 155 gene surgery – the removal of a faulty gene from a chromosome. 156Similarly, discussion on stem cell research is predicated on thereligiously-inspired notion of saving or delivering one from disability, 157 and theconstruction by those whom Goggin and Newell refer to as the socio-politically“privileged voices” 158 of who ought to be included or isolated from or eliminatedfrom mainstream society.152 The means by which one becomes drawn towards the one perceived as similar to oneself,and/or sees the other as admirable or enviable, is referred to as the ‘attraction paradigm’, andwill be discussed further in chapter 2.153 Clapton & Fitzgerald, The History of Disability, sec.5, par.1.154 Suzuki, David, and Peter Knudtson. Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life. (Sydney:Allen & Unwin, 1988), 184.155 ibid.156 ibid., 185.157 Goggin, Gerard, and Christopher Newell. "Uniting the Nation? Disability, Stem Cells andthe Australian Media." Disability & Society 19, no. 1 (2004): 47-60, 56.158 ibid.