ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|22 pages

How Methodology Bleeds into Daily Life

chapter 2|30 pages

Accounting for Amniocentesis

chapter 3|25 pages

The Communication of Risk

chapter 4|25 pages

Contested Conceptions and Misconceptions

chapter 5|26 pages

Waiting and Watching

chapter 6|36 pages

The Disabled Fetal Imaginary

chapter 7|26 pages

Refusing

chapter 10|41 pages

The Unexpected Baby

chapter 11|15 pages

Endings Are Really Beginnings