دانلود کتاب Tangled Diagnoses: Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk
by Ilana Löwy
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عنوان فارسی: تشخیصهای درهم و برهم: تست قبل از تولد، زنان و ریسک |
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Tangled Diagnoses examines the multiple consequences of the widespread diffusion of this medical innovation. Prenatal testing, Ilana Löwy argues, has become mainly a risk-management technology — the goal of which is to prevent inborn impairments, ideally through the development of efficient therapies but in practice mainly through the prevention of the birth of children with such impairments. Using scholarship, interviews, and direct observation in France and Brazil of two groups of professionals who play an especially important role in the production of knowledge about fetal development — fetopathologists and clinical geneticists — to expose the real-life dilemmas prenatal testing creates, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the sociopolitical conditions of biomedical innovation, the politics of women’s bodies, disability, and the ethics of modern medicine.
Ilana Löwy is an emerita senior researcher at Institut National de la Santé et Recherche Médicale, France.