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Imperfect Pregnancies
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Author : Ilana Löwy
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Imperfect Pregnancies written by Ilana Löwy and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Medical categories.
How has prenatal testing, once offered only for high-risk pregnancies, become standard medical care for pregnant women today? In the 1960s, thanks to the development of prenatal diagnosis, medicine found a new object of study: the living fetus. At first, prenatal testing was proposed only to women at a high risk of giving birth to an impaired child. But in the following decades, such testing has become routine. 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. Although most women are reassured that their future child is developing well, others face a stressful period of waiting for results, uncertain prognosis, and difficult decisions. 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. Because prenatal diagnosis is linked to the contentious issue of selective termination of pregnancy for a fetal anomaly, debates on this topic have largely centered on the rejection of human imperfection and the notion that we are now perched on a slippery slope that will lead to new eugenics. Imperfect Pregnancies tells a more complicated story, emphasizing that there is no single standardized way to scrutinize the fetus, but there are a great number of historically conditioned and situated approaches. This book will interest students, scholars, health professionals, administrators, and activists interested in issues surrounding new medical technologies, screening, risk management, pregnancy, disability, and the history and social politics of women’s bodies.
Tangled Diagnoses
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Author : Ilana Löwy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Tangled Diagnoses written by Ilana Löwy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with History categories.
Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of that medical attention, but prenatal diagnosis in its present form, which couples scrutiny of the fetus with the option to terminate pregnancy, came into being in the early 1970s. 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.
Imperfect Pregnancies
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Author : Ilana Löwy
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-12
Imperfect Pregnancies written by Ilana Löwy and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12 with Health & Fitness categories.
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
Imperfect Conceptions
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 1998
Imperfect Conceptions written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Since Deng Xiaoping's accession to power in 1978, human genetics has come to occupy centre stage in China, as a growing number of socially undesirable traits are attributed to so-called bad genes, which the state seeks to regulate.
An Imperfect Heart
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Author : Amie Knight
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-04-28
An Imperfect Heart written by Amie Knight and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-28 with categories.
The heart is exquisite. You'll never hear anyone wax poetic over an organ quite like they do the heart. When you're lost in the world? Follow your heart. When your love for someone is unwavering, unparalleled and unprecedented? You give them your heart. As a lead pediatric cardiac surgeon, I knew better than anyone that the heart is equally as powerful as it is delicate. The heart giveth just as easily as it taketh away. And until the day Kelly Potter darkened my doorway that was all just part of the job. She rolled in like a slow evening storm, fierce and beautiful, fighting for the life of her unborn child. It should have been business as usual. I was a doctor. Her child the patient. But Kelly was more. She was the one who got away. I wouldn't make the same mistake twice. It didn't matter what the rules were. For once, I was listening to my heart.
My Perfectly Imperfect Life Mills Boon Silhouette
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Author : Jennifer Archer
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-06-13
My Perfectly Imperfect Life Mills Boon Silhouette written by Jennifer Archer and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-13 with Fiction categories.
SURPRISE! If she needed a reminder of how different life was from her mother's favorite happily-ever-after movies, Dinah Dewberry got one on her fortieth birthday. That's when she found the black 42-double-D bra in her husband's pants pocket. Dinah was barely a B.
Preventive Strikes
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Author : Ilana Löwy
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-01-18
Preventive Strikes written by Ilana Löwy and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-18 with Health & Fitness categories.
Winner, 2011 Best Book in the History of Medicine, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Modern scientific tools can identify a genetic predisposition to cancer before any disease is detectable. Some women will never develop breast or ovarian cancer, but they nevertheless must decide, as a result of genetic testing, whether to have their breasts and ovaries removed to avoid the possibility of disease. The striking contrast between the sophistication of diagnosis and the crudeness of preventive surgery forms the basis of historian Ilana Löwy’s important study. Löwy traces the history of prophylactic amputations through a century of preventive treatment and back to a long tradition of surgical management of gynecological problems. In the early twentieth century, surgeons came to believe that removing precancerous lesions—a term difficult to define even today—averted the danger of malignancy. This practice, Löwy finds, later led to surgical interventions for women with a hereditary predisposition to cancer but no detectable disease. Richly detailed stories of patients and surgeons in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom allow Löwy to compare the evolution of medical thought and practice—and personal choice—in these different cultures. Preventive Strikes aims to improve our understanding of professional, social, and cultural responses to cancer in the twenty-first century and to inform our reflections about how values are incorporated into routine medical practices.Ilana Löwy
Bump
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Author : Kate Evans
language : en
Publisher: Myriad Editions (US&CA)
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Bump written by Kate Evans and has been published by Myriad Editions (US&CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Health & Fitness categories.
Kate Evans, celebrated author of the breastfeeding bestseller, The Food of Love, acclaimed cartoonist, and mother, turns her attention to the joys and pains of growing a baby. Evans deftly handles the physical and emotional changes that come with being pregnant, looking at the practicalities of every stage as well as the challenges that may arise. Her no-nonsense, quirky, and accessible text is illustrated throughout with detailed artwork to guide the reader through the intricacies of human reproduction, whilst her customary laugh-out-loud cartoons demystify the complexities of pregnancy and birth.The book includes:• a graphic guide to conception• practical help for those trying to conceive• early pregnancy advice• stop telling me what to do• food, glorious food• the call of the duvet• engaging with the professionals• abortion rights and wrongs• miscarriage support• screening and scans• are you ready to have a baby?• the physical preparations• ripening and readying• waiting well past your due date• the art of birth: labor• push it real good• the Caesarean section
The Best Intentions
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1995-07-02
The Best Intentions written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-02 with Social Science categories.
Experts estimate that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. pregnanciesâ€"and 81 percent of pregnancies among adolescentsâ€"are unintended. Yet the topic of preventing these unintended pregnancies has long been treated gingerly because of personal sensitivities and public controversies, especially the angry debate over abortion. Additionally, child welfare advocates long have overlooked the connection between pregnancy planning and the improved well-being of families and communities that results when children are wanted. Now, current issuesâ€"health care and welfare reform, and the new international focus on populationâ€"are drawing attention to the consequences of unintended pregnancy. In this climate The Best Intentions offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts. This committee sheds much-needed light on the questions and controversies surrounding unintended pregnancy. The book offers specific recommendations to put the United States on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs. The Best Intentions explores problematic definitionsâ€""unintended" versus "unwanted" versus "mistimed"â€"and presents data on pregnancy rates and trends. The book also summarizes the health and social consequences of unintended pregnancies, for both men and women, and for the children they bear. Why does unintended pregnancy occur? In discussions of "reasons behind the rates," the book examines Americans' ambivalence about sexuality and the many other social, cultural, religious, and economic factors that affect our approach to contraception. The committee explores the complicated web of peer pressure, life aspirations, and notions of romance that shape an individual's decisions about sex, contraception, and pregnancy. And the book looks at such practical issues as the attitudes of doctors toward birth control and the place of contraception in both health insurance and "managed care." The Best Intentions offers frank discussion, synthesis of data, and policy recommendations on one of today's most sensitive social topics. This book will be important to policymakers, health and social service personnel, foundation executives, opinion leaders, researchers, and concerned individuals.
The Myth Of The Perfect Pregnancy
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Author : Lara Freidenfelds
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-01-02
The Myth Of The Perfect Pregnancy written by Lara Freidenfelds and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-02 with History categories.
When a couple plans for a child today, every moment seems precious and unique. Home pregnancy tests promise good news just days after conception, and prospective parents can track the progress of their pregnancy day by day with apps that deliver a stream of embryonic portraits. On-line due date calculators trigger a direct-marketing barrage of baby-name lists and diaper coupons. Ultrasounds as early as eight weeks offer a first photo for the baby book. Yet, all too often, even the best-strategized childbearing plans go awry. About twenty percent of confirmed pregnancies miscarry, mostly in the first months of gestation. Statistically, early pregnancy losses are a normal part of childbearing for healthy women. Drawing on sources ranging from advice books and corporate marketing plans to diary entries and blog posts, Lara Freidenfelds offers a deep perspective on how this common and natural phenomenon has been experienced. As she shows, historically, miscarriages were generally taken in stride so long as a woman eventually had the children she desired. This has changed in recent decades, and an early pregnancy loss is often heartbreaking and can be as devastating to couples as losing a child. Freidenfelds traces how innovations in scientific medicine, consumer culture, cultural attitudes toward women and families, and fundamental convictions about human agency have reshaped the childbearing landscape. While the benefits of an increased emphasis on parental affection, careful pregnancy planning, attentive medical care, and specialized baby gear are real, they have also created unrealistic and potentially damaging expectations about a couple's ability to control reproduction and achieve perfect experiences. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy provides a reassuring perspective on early pregnancy loss and suggests ways for miscarriage to more effectively be acknowledged by women, their families, their healthcare providers, and the maternity care industry.