Testing Women Testing the Fetus

<p>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, <em>Testing Women, Testing the Fetus</em> explores the "geneticization" of family life in all its complexity and diversity.</p> 1. How Methodology Bleeds into Daily Life2. Accounting for Amniocentesis3. The Communication of Risk4. Contested Conceptions and Misconceptions5. Waiting and Watching 6. The Disabled Fetal Imaginary7. Refusing8. Culturing Chromosomes, or What's in the Soup9. An Error in Cell Division, or the Power of Positive Diagnosis10. The Unexpected Baby 11. Ending Are Really Beginnings