Imperfect pregnancies : a history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis / Ilana Löwy.

  • Löwy, Ilana, 1948-
Date:
[2017]
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Description

"In Imperfect Pregnancies, Ilana Löwy argues that the generalization of prenatal diagnosis has radically changed the experience of pregnancy for tens of millions of women worldwide. Löwy follows the rise of biomedical technologies that made prenatal diagnosis possible and investigates the institutional, sociocultural, economic, legal, and political consequences of their widespread diffusion." --Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]

Physical description

xv, 277 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-269) and index.

Contents

Introduction : scrutinized fetuses -- Born imperfect : birth defects before prenatal diagnosis -- Karyotypes -- Human malformations -- From prenatal diagnosis to prenatal screening -- Sex chromosome aneuploidies -- PND and new genomics approaches -- Conclusion : PND's slippery slopes, imagined and real.

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    History of Medicine
    UND.M
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ISBN

  • 9781421423630