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Rayna Rapp
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus [EPUB ebook]
The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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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 author”s 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.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 376 ● ISBN 9781135963910 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2668607 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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