H Mabel Preloran
Biographic Data
| ID | 177865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Mabel Preloran |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Mabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Preloran |
| SIGNATURE | PRELORAN H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Interrogating the dynamics between power, knowledge and pregnant bodies in amniocentesis decision making
A common assumption is that women who decline prenatal testing distrust biomedicine and trust embodied/experiential knowledge sources, while women who accept testing trust biomedicine and distrust embodied/experiential sources. Another major assumption about prenatal testing utilisation is that women who are open to abortion will undergo prenatal testing while those who are opposed to abortion will decline testing. Yet, previous research has prod…
Diagnostic genetic testing for a fatal illness: The experience of patients with movement disorders
While neurologists encountered the social and ethical concerns associated with diagnosing incurable genetic diseases long before direct DNA testing became available, the increased availability of these tests has magnified these concerns.Most research has focused on the implications of testing asymptomatic individuals; research on the experience of patients with symptoms of heritable conditions is lacking, leaving an ambiguity about their needs wi…
Expectations, Emotions, and Medical Decision Making: A Case Study on the Use of Amniocentesis
The medical decision-making literature has paid scant attention to how prior expectations of patients and clinicians can influence medical encounters and affect patients' choices whether to accept or reject medical testing or treatment. To illuminate the issue, we offer a reflexive analysis of the experiences of a Mexican-American couple offered amniocentesis based on the woman's age and prior pregnancy history. We examine the impact of three pri…
Genetic counseling gone awry: Miscommunication between prenatal genetic service providers and Mexican-origin clients
I'm Not the One They're Sticking the Needle Into: Latino Couples, Fetal Diagnosis, and the Discourse of Reproductive Rights
Despite the growing routinization of prenatal diagnosis, little research has examined men's roles in this reproductive arena or these technologies' possibilities for reinforcing or transforming gender roles and relations. The authors analyze male partners' participation in the amniocentesis decisions of Mexican-origin women at high risk for problems, drawing on interviews with 157 women and 120 of their male partners. The primary aim is to explor…
Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples' Participation in Qualitative Health Research and Their Effects on Sample Construction
Many investigators report difficulties recruiting low-income Latinos into health research projects, especially when they seek to enroll more than one family member. We developed a series of strategies that proved effective in motivating candidates who were initially reluctant to enroll. There is a possibility that these strategies biased the composition of the sample. Predictably, the reasons participants gave for enrolling were correlated with t…
Interpreting Low-Income Latinas’ Amniocentesis Refusals
As with other medical care, low-income Latinas turn down prenatal genetics services, including amniocentesis, more than any other U.S. group. Amniocentesis is a medical procedure that provides information about a fetus‘ health. Virtually all conditions the test detects are untreatable other than by induced abortion. Because little is known about why Latinas accept or decline amniocentesis and the role ethnicity might play in their decision, we so…
Latinas, Amniocentesis and the Discourse of Choice
Ethnicity, bioethics, and prenatal diagnosis: The amniocentesis decisions of Mexican-origin women and their partners
Bioethical standards and counseling techniques that regulate prenatal diagnosis in the United States were developed at a time when the principal constituency for fetal testing was a self-selected group of White, well-informed, middle-class women. The routine use of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) testing, which has become widespread since the mid-1980s, introduced new constituencies to prenatal diagnosis. These new constituencies include ethnic minority …
Genetic counseling gone awry: Miscommunication between prenatal genetic service providers and Mexican-origin clients
Interrogating the dynamics between power, knowledge and pregnant bodies in amniocentesis decision making
A common assumption is that women who decline prenatal testing distrust biomedicine and trust embodied/experiential knowledge sources, while women who accept testing trust biomedicine and distrust embodied/experiential sources. Another major assumption about prenatal testing utilisation is that women who are open to abortion will undergo prenatal testing while those who are opposed to abortion will decline testing. Yet, previous research has prod…
Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples' Participation in Qualitative Health Research and Their Effects on Sample Construction
Many investigators report difficulties recruiting low-income Latinos into health research projects, especially when they seek to enroll more than one family member. We developed a series of strategies that proved effective in motivating candidates who were initially reluctant to enroll. There is a possibility that these strategies biased the composition of the sample. Predictably, the reasons participants gave for enrolling were correlated with t…
I'm Not the One They're Sticking the Needle Into: Latino Couples, Fetal Diagnosis, and the Discourse of Reproductive Rights
Despite the growing routinization of prenatal diagnosis, little research has examined men's roles in this reproductive arena or these technologies' possibilities for reinforcing or transforming gender roles and relations. The authors analyze male partners' participation in the amniocentesis decisions of Mexican-origin women at high risk for problems, drawing on interviews with 157 women and 120 of their male partners. The primary aim is to explor…
Ethnicity, bioethics, and prenatal diagnosis: The amniocentesis decisions of Mexican-origin women and their partners
Bioethical standards and counseling techniques that regulate prenatal diagnosis in the United States were developed at a time when the principal constituency for fetal testing was a self-selected group of White, well-informed, middle-class women. The routine use of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) testing, which has become widespread since the mid-1980s, introduced new constituencies to prenatal diagnosis. These new constituencies include ethnic minority …
Latinas, Amniocentesis and the Discourse of Choice
Expectations, Emotions, and Medical Decision Making: A Case Study on the Use of Amniocentesis
The medical decision-making literature has paid scant attention to how prior expectations of patients and clinicians can influence medical encounters and affect patients' choices whether to accept or reject medical testing or treatment. To illuminate the issue, we offer a reflexive analysis of the experiences of a Mexican-American couple offered amniocentesis based on the woman's age and prior pregnancy history. We examine the impact of three pri…
Interpreting Low-Income Latinas’ Amniocentesis Refusals
As with other medical care, low-income Latinas turn down prenatal genetics services, including amniocentesis, more than any other U.S. group. Amniocentesis is a medical procedure that provides information about a fetus‘ health. Virtually all conditions the test detects are untreatable other than by induced abortion. Because little is known about why Latinas accept or decline amniocentesis and the role ethnicity might play in their decision, we so…
Ethnicity, bioethics, and prenatal diagnosis: The amniocentesis decisions of Mexican-origin women and their partners
Bioethical standards and counseling techniques that regulate prenatal diagnosis in the United States were developed at a time when the principal constituency for fetal testing was a self-selected group of White, well-informed, middle-class women. The routine use of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) testing, which has become widespread since the mid-1980s, introduced new constituencies to prenatal diagnosis. These new constituencies include ethnic minority …
Interpreting Low-Income Latinas’ Amniocentesis Refusals
As with other medical care, low-income Latinas turn down prenatal genetics services, including amniocentesis, more than any other U.S. group. Amniocentesis is a medical procedure that provides information about a fetus‘ health. Virtually all conditions the test detects are untreatable other than by induced abortion. Because little is known about why Latinas accept or decline amniocentesis and the role ethnicity might play in their decision, we so…
Latinas, Amniocentesis and the Discourse of Choice
Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples' Participation in Qualitative Health Research and Their Effects on Sample Construction
Many investigators report difficulties recruiting low-income Latinos into health research projects, especially when they seek to enroll more than one family member. We developed a series of strategies that proved effective in motivating candidates who were initially reluctant to enroll. There is a possibility that these strategies biased the composition of the sample. Predictably, the reasons participants gave for enrolling were correlated with t…
Genetic counseling gone awry: Miscommunication between prenatal genetic service providers and Mexican-origin clients
I'm Not the One They're Sticking the Needle Into: Latino Couples, Fetal Diagnosis, and the Discourse of Reproductive Rights
Despite the growing routinization of prenatal diagnosis, little research has examined men's roles in this reproductive arena or these technologies' possibilities for reinforcing or transforming gender roles and relations. The authors analyze male partners' participation in the amniocentesis decisions of Mexican-origin women at high risk for problems, drawing on interviews with 157 women and 120 of their male partners. The primary aim is to explor…
Expectations, Emotions, and Medical Decision Making: A Case Study on the Use of Amniocentesis
The medical decision-making literature has paid scant attention to how prior expectations of patients and clinicians can influence medical encounters and affect patients' choices whether to accept or reject medical testing or treatment. To illuminate the issue, we offer a reflexive analysis of the experiences of a Mexican-American couple offered amniocentesis based on the woman's age and prior pregnancy history. We examine the impact of three pri…
Diagnostic genetic testing for a fatal illness: The experience of patients with movement disorders
While neurologists encountered the social and ethical concerns associated with diagnosing incurable genetic diseases long before direct DNA testing became available, the increased availability of these tests has magnified these concerns.Most research has focused on the implications of testing asymptomatic individuals; research on the experience of patients with symptoms of heritable conditions is lacking, leaving an ambiguity about their needs wi…
Interrogating the dynamics between power, knowledge and pregnant bodies in amniocentesis decision making
A common assumption is that women who decline prenatal testing distrust biomedicine and trust embodied/experiential knowledge sources, while women who accept testing trust biomedicine and distrust embodied/experiential sources. Another major assumption about prenatal testing utilisation is that women who are open to abortion will undergo prenatal testing while those who are opposed to abortion will decline testing. Yet, previous research has prod…
Amniocentesis (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Pregnancy (7 works) · Prenatal diagnosis (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (4 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (4 works) · Abortion (3 works)