Tangled diagnoses : prenatal testing, women, and risk /

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Author / Creator:Löwy, Ilana, 1948- author.
Imprint:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11568083
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ISBN:9780226534121
022653412X
9780226534091
022653409X
9780226534268
022653426X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-313) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "to see what is about to be born"
  • The liminal fetus
  • Genetics, morphology, and difficult diagnoses
  • Diagnostic puzzles : fetopathology in France
  • Visible disasters : fetopathology in Brazil
  • Balancing risks : PND and the "prevention of disability"
  • PND, reproductive choices, and care
  • Conclusion : a nonscrutinized diagnosis
  • Coda : Minerva's Owl and Apollo's Lyre.