Jane Xie

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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

This week’s content in both, Rayna Rapp’s Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America and The Burden of Knowledge: Moral Dilemmas in Prenatal Testing, was abundant in the discussion of the ethical, cultural, economic, and religious influences surrounding prenatal technologies (e.g. amniocentesis). In Rapp’s book, she dives into a plethora …

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