| Description |
xviii, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women and health series |
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Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
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| Contents |
9. Prenatal Genetic Testing: Does It Benefit Pregnant Women? / Elena A. Gates -- 10. Collective Silences, Collective Fictions: How Prenatal Diagnostic Testing Became Part of Routine Prenatal Care / Nancy Anne Press and Carole H. Browner -- 11. Women's Responses to Prenatal Diagnosis: A Sociocultural Perspective on Diversity / Rayna Rapp -- 12. Reproductive Genetic Services for Low-Income Women and Women of Color: Access and Sociocultural Issues / Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson -- 13. The Tentative Pregnancy: Then and Now / Barbara Katz Rothman -- 14. Reproductive Genetic Testing and Pregnancy Loss: The Experience of Women / Rita Beck Black |
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Introduction: Women and Prenatal Testing: An Introduction to the Issues / Karen H. Rothenberg and Elizabeth J. Thomson -- 1. The Genetic Construction of Prenatal Testing: Choice, Consent, or Conformity for Women? / Abby Lippman -- 2. Women's Roles in the History of Amniocentesis and Chorionic Villi Sampling / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- 3. Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis: The Impact on Persons with Disabilities / Deborah Kaplan -- 4. Reproductive Genetics and Gender Justice / Mary B. Mahowald -- 5. Reproductive Genetic Testing, Prevention, and the Ethics of Mothering / Ruth Faden -- 6. Ethics and Reproductive Genetic Testing: The Need to Understand the Parent-Child Relationship / Patricia A. King -- 7. "The Good Mother": The Limits of Reproductive Accountability and Genetic Choice / R. Alta Charo and Karen H. Rothenberg -- 8. What the Law Says about Reproductive Genetic Testing and What It Doesn't / Ellen Wright Clayton |
| Notes |
Spine title: Women & prenatal testing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Available also via the World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Prenatal diagnosis -- Psychological aspects.
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Prenatal diagnosis -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Rothenberg, Karen H., 1952-
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Thomson, Elizabeth Jean.
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| LC no. |
94006363 |
| ISBN |
0814206409 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0814206417 (paper : acid-free paper) |
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