Prenatal Testing

A Sociological Perspective

B. M. Burke, Aliza Kolker (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

1994
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89789-337-4 (ISBN)

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Prenatal testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood. Using sociological research, this book analyzes the social-psychological and ethical implications of invasive prenatal testing, particularly CVS and amniocentesis. Among the issues covered are changes in the genetic counseling profession and in client demographics; the challenge of nondirective genetic counseling; decisions on testing and on which test to have; the timing and risks of the procedures; abortion and grief; the ethics of sex selection; potential uses and abuses of genetic knowledge; and policy and ethical implications.

ALIZA KOLKER is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. She is the author or editor of three previous books on health and policy issues. MEREDITH BURKE, a consulting demographer to major donor agencies overseas, has taught health and demographic policy courses at several universities. Formerly with the international division of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she was a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1996-7. She has published extensively in professional journals and in the news media about genetics, health care and policy issues.

Foreword by Arthur L. Caplan The Social Construction of Pregnancy The Procedures The Ethos of Nondirectiveness The Genetic Counseling Session Amniocentesis: The Early Years Who Uses Prenatal Diagnosis Today Assessing the Risks Attitudes about Abortion Abnormal Diagnosis and Termination Fetal Sex Identification Prenatal Testing and Competing Social Goals Appendices References Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.7.1994
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-89789-337-9 / 0897893379
ISBN-13	978-0-89789-337-4 / 9780897893374
Zustand	Neuware