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Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America
- Title
- Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp.
- Author
- Reiter, Rayna R.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RG628.3.A48 R37 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 361 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Rayna Rapp, one of America's leading feminist anthropologists, has spent more than a decade researching the social impact of amniocentesis. Drawing upon hundreds of women's stories - and her own - she shows us the human faces behind these new reproductive technologies. Their lives, their stories, and their decisions ask difficult questions about the role of scientific knowledge and genetic research in understanding what it is to be human."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-352) and index.
- 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, or 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.
- ISBN
- 0415916445 (hardbound)
- 0415916453 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 98045968
- OCLC
- ocm39914051
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries