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

About this book

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.