Testing Women, Testing the Fetus - Rayna Rapp

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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Buch | Softcover
376 Seiten
2000
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-91645-5 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing.
Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing technologies. Based on the author's decade of research and her own personal experiences with amniocentesis, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus explores the "geneticization" of family life in all its complexity and diversity.

Rayna Rapp is Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and has been active in the movements to establish U.S. women's studies and reproductive rights for more than twenty-five years. Rapp has researched prenatal diagnosis as an anthropologist and as a feminist activist for over a decade, and is editor of the classic Toward an Anthropology of Women (1975) and co-editor of Conceiving the New World Order (1995).

1. How Methodology Bleeds into Daily Life 2. Accounting for Amniocentesis 3. The Communication of Risk 4. Contested Conceptions and Misconceptions 5. Waiting and Watching 6. The Disabled Fetal Imaginary 7. Refusing 8. Culturing Chromosomes, or What's in the Soup 9. An Error in Cell Division, or the Power of Positive Diagnosis 10. The Unexpected Baby 11. Ending Are Really Beginnings

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.8.2000
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 700 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-415-91645-3 / 0415916453
ISBN-13 978-0-415-91645-5 / 9780415916455
Zustand Neuware
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