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

paperback – September 5, 2000
by Rapp, Rayna
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ISBN-13: 9780415916455 ISBN-10: 0415916453
Publisher
Routledge
Binding
paperback
Published
September 5, 2000
Weight
1.2 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.20×15.20 cm

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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America by Rapp, Rayna. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415916455.

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 authors 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.