Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

Name: Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415916448
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The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

By Rayna Rapp

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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus explores the complex and often contradictory nature of prenatal diagnosis through the personal narratives of women who have experienced it. This work delves into how women from diverse racial, ethnic, class, and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing. It raises profound moral questions surrounding pregnancy technology, such as what women want from it, what conditions justify abortion, and how they cope with difficult diagnoses.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in medical anthropology, reproductive health, ethical issues in prenatal testing, and those seeking personal insights into the social impact of genetic technologies.

This work explores the complex and contradictory nature of prenatal diagnosis and its social impact and cultural meaning through the narratives of the people who have experienced it.

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This work explores the complex and contradictory nature of prenatal diagnosis and its social impact and cultural meaning through the narratives of the people who have experienced it. 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.

This Pandora's box of moral issues has prompted complex questions such as: What do women want and not want from technology in pregnancy? What conditions are "worth" an abortion? And how do women receiving a "bad" diagnosis cope with their ultimate decisions?

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus delves into these challenges, providing deep insight into the varied perspectives that contribute to this significant and emotive discussion.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised as a compelling ethnography by Arthur Kleinman, M.D., the book offers a deeply human account of reproductive technologies embedded within broader social processes of gender, class, and politics. It provides rich, rarely told stories that support informed decision-making for expectant mothers facing prenatal testing. Reviewers acknowledge it as a monumental and rigorous study illuminating both scientific and social dimensions of amniocentesis.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415916448

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 August 1999

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 860g

Pages: 376

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Rayna Rapp

About the Author

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).