Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis
The Meanings of Bioscience in a Multicultural World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rayna Rapp (0000-0003-0177-2224, New School for Social Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-70 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/016224399802300103 |
| PMID | 11660551 |
| OpenAlex | W2042930489 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article explores the reasons women of diverse class, racial ethnic, national, and religious backgrounds give for their decisions not to accept an amniocentesis or, having accepted one, not to pursue an abortion after diagnosis of serious fetal disability. The narratives of refusers reveal conflicts and tensions between the universalizing rationality of biomedical interventions into pregnancy and the wider heterogeneous social frame work to which women respond in their decision-making processes
Abortion · Amniocentesis · Ethnic group · Fetus · Multiculturalism · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Pregnancy · Prenatal diagnosis · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Rationality · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
Inside the Politics of Technology
Inescapable burden of choice? The impact of a culture of prenatal screening on women's experiences of pregnancy
Regulating the gene
La leçon d'humanité de Gino
Defining the 'social
Malleability and Machines
Learning from My Daughter
Inside the Politics of Technology
The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life
When science and the public meet
Coming to terms with the imperfectly normal child
Tracking Work from the Wrist
Prenatal diagnosis
Motherhood, risk and responsibility
Screening Networks
Genetics in Society/Society in Genetics
Repunctuated Feminism
Risk and reproductive decisions
God-sent ordeals and their discontents
The impact of technology on pregnancy and childbirth
‘I think it’s self-preservation’
Choosing not to choose
I guess I do have to take back what I said before, about television
Exploring informed choice in the context of prenatal testing
Between “Science” and “Superstition”
Rethinking ignorance production in the field of reproductive biomedicine
Personalized ethics
Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality
Authoritative Knowledge, the Technological Imperative and Women’s Responses to Prenatal Diagnostic Technologies
Prenatal Care Shopping
On Ambivalence and Risk
Dealing with In/dependence
The World's Not Ready for This
Because of the risks
What's at stake? Genetic information from the perspective of people with epilepsy and their family members
MRI for Fetal Developmental Brain Abnormalities
The impact of ethical beliefs on decisions about prenatal screening tests
Health inequality and users' risk-taking
Experience as knowledge
After geneticization
Family health competence
Genetic counseling gone awry
The genetically modified organism shall not be refused? Talking back to the technosciences
The Birth of the Clinic and the Advent of Reproduction
"Genomics, divination, "racecraft
Prenatal Diagnosis in Postwar Vietnam
The Choice of Two Mothers
Expectations, Emotions, and Medical Decision Making
Upright Generations of the Future
Introducing Social and Ethical Perspectives on Gene-Environment Research
Gender and Technology
Sense and the Senses
Selective Reproductive Technologies
Psychiatric Gaslighting
The Magic, Science, and Religion of Pet Cloning
Do Notions of Risk Inform Patient Choice? Lessons from a Study of Prenatal Genetic Counseling
Elusive Genes
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,04 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |