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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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ISBN-10: 0415916453

ISBN-13: 9780415916455

Edition: 2000

Authors: Rayna Rapp

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Rayna Rapp explores the complex and contradictory nature of prenatal diagnosis and its social impact and cultural meaning in the USA. The author's understanding is based upon the experiences of women who have undergone such testing.
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Acknowledgments
How Methodology Bleeds into Daily Life
Accounting for Amniocentesis
The Communication of Risk
Contested Conceptions and Misconceptions
Waiting and Watching
The Disabled Fetal Imaginary
Refusing
Culturing Chromosomes, or What's in the Soup
An Error in Cell Division, or The Power of Positive Diagnosis
The Unexpected Baby
Endings Are Really Beginnings
Notes
References
Permissions
Index