Refusing prenatal diagnosis: The meanings of bioscience in a multicultural world

Journal/Book: Sci Technol Hum Val. 1998; 23: 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Sage Publications Inc. 45-70.

Abstract: 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 framework to which women respond in their decision-making processes.

Note: Article Rapp R, New Sch Social Res, Grad Program Gender Studies & Feminist Theory, 65 5TH Ave, New York,NY 10003 USA

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