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BL
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1007206
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b761576
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Rapp, Rayna.
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| Title & Author
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Testing women, testing the fetus : : the social impact of amniocentesis in America /\ Rayna Rapp.
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| Publication Statement
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New York ;London :: Routledge,, 2000.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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| ISBN
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0203011341
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: 0415916445
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: 0415916453
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: 9780203011348
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: 9780415916448
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: 9780415916455
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| Notes
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Originally published: 1999.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-352) and index.
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| Contents
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1. How methodology bleeds into daily life -- 2. Accounting for amniocentesis -- 3. The communication of risk -- 4. Contested conceptions and misconceptions -- 5. Waiting and watching -- 6. The disabled fetal imaginary -- 7. Refusing -- 8. Culturing chromosomes, of what's in the soup -- 9. An error in cell division, or The power of positive diagnosis -- 10. The unexpected baby -- 11. Endings are really beginnings.
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| Abstract
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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.
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| Subject
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Amniocentesis-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Amniocentesis-- Social aspects.
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MEDICAL-- Perinatology Neonatology.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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618.3204275
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RG628.3.A48R37 2000eb
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