Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp.

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Rapp, Rayna

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TextSeries: Anthropology of everyday lifePublication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203011341
9780203011348
9780415916448
0415916445
9780415916455
0415916453

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Testing women, testing the fetus.DDC classification:

618.3204275 22

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RG628.3.A48 R37 2000eb

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Contents:

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, of what's in the soup -- 9. An error in cell division, or The power of positive diagnosis -- 10. The unexpected baby -- 11. Endings are really beginnings.

Summary: 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.

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Originally published: 1999.

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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-352) and index.

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