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Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America

Author: Rayna R Reiter
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series: Anthropology of everyday life.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rayna R Reiter
ISBN: 0415916445 9780415916448 0415916453 9780415916455
OCLC Number: 39914051
Description: xiii, 361 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: How Methodology Bleeds into Daily Life --
Accounting for Amniocentesis --
The Communication of Risk --
Contested Conceptions and Misconceptions --
Waiting and Watching --
The Disabled Fetal Imaginary --
Refusing --
Culturing Chromosomes, or What's in the Soup --
An Error in Cell Division, or The Power of Positive Diagnosis --
The Unexpected Baby --
Endings Are Really Beginnings.
Series Title: Anthropology of everyday life.
Responsibility: Rayna Rapp.
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