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Tangled Diagnoses - Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk (Paperback)
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Tangled Diagnoses - Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk (Paperback)
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Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster
the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of
pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care.
Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of
that medical attention, but prenatal diagnosis in its present form,
which couples scrutiny of the fetus with the option to terminate
pregnancy, came into being in the early 1970s. Tangled Diagnoses
examines the multiple consequences of the widespread diffusion of
this medical innovation. Prenatal testing, Ilana Löwy argues, has
become mainly a risk-management technology—the goal of which is
to prevent inborn impairments, ideally through the development of
efficient therapies but in practice mainly through the prevention
of the birth of children with such impairments. Using scholarship,
interviews, and direct observation in France and Brazil of two
groups of professionals who play an especially important role in
the production of knowledge about fetal
development—fetopathologists and clinical geneticists—to expose
the real-life dilemmas prenatal testing creates, this book will be
of interest to anyone concerned with the sociopolitical conditions
of biomedical innovation, the politics of women’s bodies,
disability, and the ethics of modern medicine.
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