Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp.
Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp.
Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp.
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New York : Routledge, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N618.3204275/1
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English
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xiii, 361 p. ; 24 cm.
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 i...
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New York : Routledge, 1999.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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"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 t...
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Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp.
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The anthropology of everyday life.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-352) and index.
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N618.3204275/1
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0415916445 (hardbound)
9780415916448 :
0415916445 :
9780415916448 (hb : alk. paper)
0415916445 (hb : alk. paper)
9780415916455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415916453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415916455 (pbk.)
0415916453 (pbk.)
9780415916448 (hardbound)
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618.3204275
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