Adrienne Asch
Biographic Data
| ID | 253665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrienne Asch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Asch |
| SIGNATURE | ASCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Informed Consent and Prenatal Testing
For more than 2 decades, some supporters of reproductive choice have contended that the manner in which prenatal testing is typically offered to pregnant women, and positive results typically explained, does not adequately ensure informed consent These critics have objected to the descriptions of testing given to women by their physicians and have challenged the type and quality of information women receive about diagnosed fetal conditions. Recen…
Involuntary Childlessness, Reproductive Technology, and Social Justice
The past thirty years have witnessed a steady rise in the demand for treatment of infertility, including the use of in vitro fertilization and third‐party eggs and sperm. The high cost of these procedures (in the tens of thousands of dollars) has led many people concerned about the attendant unfair consequences of economic inequality (the limitation of less well‐off people’s chances of having children) to propose mandatory insurance coverage of i…
The Uncertain Rationale for Prenatal Disability Screening
an article in The New England Journal of Medicine reported the increasing accuracy of first trimester screening for Down syndrome. The introduction of first trimester tests for the condition was heralded in 1998 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD), as reducing complications for women who choose abortion. NICHHD reportedly spent $15 million on the studypresumably to fulfill its mission "to ensure that every per…
Policy & Politics
The Double-Edged Helix
The Boundaries of Identity
review of PRENATNAL TESTING AND DISABILITY RIGHTS, edited by Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch
Special Supplement
Erik Parens, Adrienne Asch, Special Supplement: The Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing Reflections and Recommendations, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1999), pp. S1-S22
Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion
Professionals should reexamine negative assumptions about the quality of life with prenatally detectable impairments and should reform clinical practice and public policy to improve informed decision making and genuine reproductive choice. Current data on children and families affected by disabilities indicate that disability does not preclude a satisfying life. Many problems attributed to the existence of a disability actually stem from inadequa…
Women With Disabilities What Do We Know? What Must We Learn
Investigation and Enforcement of a Disability Discrimination Statute
This paper presents an analysis of 7,189 complaints of disabilitybased discrimination in employment filed with New York State and open between 1984-1994. The characteristics of the complainants, the employers, the complaints, and the resolutions are presented. The data show that the majority of disability discrimination complainants were not persons seeking jobs, but those who had jobs or were terminated from jobs. Approximately 40% of cases clos…
Women with Disabilities
1. On Embodiment: A Case Study of Congenital Limb Deficiency in - American Culture - Gelya Frank 2. Sex Roles and Culture: Social and Personal Reactions to Breast Cancer - Beth E. Meyerowitz. Shelley Chaiken, and Laura K. Clark 3. In Search of a Heroine: Images of Women with Disabilities in Fiction and Drama - Deborah Kent 4. The Construction of Gender and Disability in Early Attachment - Adrienne Harris and Dana Wideman 5. Daughters with Disabil…
Women With Disabilities
Women and Disability
Disability Beyond Stigma
This article critiques the assumptions about the nature and meaning of disability advanced in social‐psychological writing, suggests the origins of these assumptions, and proposes a return to a Lewinian/minority‐group analysis of the situation of people with disabilities. It concludes by placing the articles in this issue of the Journal of Social Issues in context and by presenting questions in need of further exploration
The experience of disability
Personal reflections
Personal Reflections
The experience of disability
Disabled Women
The position of the disabled woman in current U.S. society deserves political, theoretical and empirical attention. In this paper we have delineated the economic, social and psychological constraints which place her at a distinct disadvantage, relative to disabled men and nondisabled women. We evaluate the ways in which having a disability is viewed as an impediment to traditional or nontraditional sex role development. The construct rolelessness…
Disability Beyond Stigma
This article critiques the assumptions about the nature and meaning of disability advanced in social‐psychological writing, suggests the origins of these assumptions, and proposes a return to a Lewinian/minority‐group analysis of the situation of people with disabilities. It concludes by placing the articles in this issue of the Journal of Social Issues in context and by presenting questions in need of further exploration
Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion
Professionals should reexamine negative assumptions about the quality of life with prenatally detectable impairments and should reform clinical practice and public policy to improve informed decision making and genuine reproductive choice. Current data on children and families affected by disabilities indicate that disability does not preclude a satisfying life. Many problems attributed to the existence of a disability actually stem from inadequa…
Disabled Women
The position of the disabled woman in current U.S. society deserves political, theoretical and empirical attention. In this paper we have delineated the economic, social and psychological constraints which place her at a distinct disadvantage, relative to disabled men and nondisabled women. We evaluate the ways in which having a disability is viewed as an impediment to traditional or nontraditional sex role development. The construct rolelessness…
Involuntary Childlessness, Reproductive Technology, and Social Justice
The past thirty years have witnessed a steady rise in the demand for treatment of infertility, including the use of in vitro fertilization and third‐party eggs and sperm. The high cost of these procedures (in the tens of thousands of dollars) has led many people concerned about the attendant unfair consequences of economic inequality (the limitation of less well‐off people’s chances of having children) to propose mandatory insurance coverage of i…
Disabled Women
The position of the disabled woman in current U.S. society deserves political, theoretical and empirical attention. In this paper we have delineated the economic, social and psychological constraints which place her at a distinct disadvantage, relative to disabled men and nondisabled women. We evaluate the ways in which having a disability is viewed as an impediment to traditional or nontraditional sex role development. The construct rolelessness…
The experience of disability
Personal reflections
Personal Reflections
The experience of disability
Disability Beyond Stigma
This article critiques the assumptions about the nature and meaning of disability advanced in social‐psychological writing, suggests the origins of these assumptions, and proposes a return to a Lewinian/minority‐group analysis of the situation of people with disabilities. It concludes by placing the articles in this issue of the Journal of Social Issues in context and by presenting questions in need of further exploration
Women and Disability
Women with Disabilities
1. On Embodiment: A Case Study of Congenital Limb Deficiency in - American Culture - Gelya Frank 2. Sex Roles and Culture: Social and Personal Reactions to Breast Cancer - Beth E. Meyerowitz. Shelley Chaiken, and Laura K. Clark 3. In Search of a Heroine: Images of Women with Disabilities in Fiction and Drama - Deborah Kent 4. The Construction of Gender and Disability in Early Attachment - Adrienne Harris and Dana Wideman 5. Daughters with Disabil…
Women With Disabilities
Investigation and Enforcement of a Disability Discrimination Statute
This paper presents an analysis of 7,189 complaints of disabilitybased discrimination in employment filed with New York State and open between 1984-1994. The characteristics of the complainants, the employers, the complaints, and the resolutions are presented. The data show that the majority of disability discrimination complainants were not persons seeking jobs, but those who had jobs or were terminated from jobs. Approximately 40% of cases clos…
Women With Disabilities What Do We Know? What Must We Learn
Special Supplement
Erik Parens, Adrienne Asch, Special Supplement: The Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing Reflections and Recommendations, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1999), pp. S1-S22
Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion
Professionals should reexamine negative assumptions about the quality of life with prenatally detectable impairments and should reform clinical practice and public policy to improve informed decision making and genuine reproductive choice. Current data on children and families affected by disabilities indicate that disability does not preclude a satisfying life. Many problems attributed to the existence of a disability actually stem from inadequa…
The Boundaries of Identity
review of PRENATNAL TESTING AND DISABILITY RIGHTS, edited by Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch
The Double-Edged Helix
Policy & Politics
The Uncertain Rationale for Prenatal Disability Screening
an article in The New England Journal of Medicine reported the increasing accuracy of first trimester screening for Down syndrome. The introduction of first trimester tests for the condition was heralded in 1998 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD), as reducing complications for women who choose abortion. NICHHD reportedly spent $15 million on the studypresumably to fulfill its mission "to ensure that every per…
Informed Consent and Prenatal Testing
For more than 2 decades, some supporters of reproductive choice have contended that the manner in which prenatal testing is typically offered to pregnant women, and positive results typically explained, does not adequately ensure informed consent These critics have objected to the descriptions of testing given to women by their physicians and have challenged the type and quality of information women receive about diagnosed fetal conditions. Recen…
Involuntary Childlessness, Reproductive Technology, and Social Justice
The past thirty years have witnessed a steady rise in the demand for treatment of infertility, including the use of in vitro fertilization and third‐party eggs and sperm. The high cost of these procedures (in the tens of thousands of dollars) has led many people concerned about the attendant unfair consequences of economic inequality (the limitation of less well‐off people’s chances of having children) to propose mandatory insurance coverage of i…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Biology (4 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (4 works) · Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works)