Rayna Rapp

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780415916448
• ISBN-10: 0415916445
• Artikelnr.: 21387732

Autorenporträt

Rayna Rapp is Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and has been active in the movements to establish U.S. women's studies and reproductive rights for more than twenty-five years. Rapp has researched prenatal diagnosis as an anthropologist and as a feminist activist for over a decade, and is editor of the classic Toward an Anthropology of Women (1975) and co-editor of Conceiving the New World Order (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

1. How Methodology Bleeds into Daily Life2. Accounting for Amniocentesis3.
The Communication of Risk4. Contested Conceptions and Misconceptions5.
Waiting and Watching 6. The Disabled Fetal Imaginary7. Refusing8. Culturing
Chromosomes, or What's in the Soup9. An Error in Cell Division, or the
Power of Positive Diagnosis10. The Unexpected Baby 11. Ending Are Really
Beginnings