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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

by Rayna Rapp

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.