ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three 'translations' in medical rationalizations, related to discussions and practical implementations of prenatal testing from the beginning of 1980s until the first years of the twenty first century. In promoting health policy aims. In this chapter the focus is on the birth and development of certain practices of medical government and their modes of reasoning in the Finnish welfare society. The chapter shows that what began as medical aims of risk control and disease prevention have also become part of citizens' demands directed back at medical practice and health care. Furthermore, although applications of new genetics cannot be held as alone liable for present day parents' needs and desires to ensure the health and normality of their offspring, medical genetics is not 'outside' this development either a point have wanted to make.
