Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome - Softcover

Piepmeier, Alison

 
9781479879953: Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1479879959 ISBN 13: 9781479879953
Verlag: NEW YORK UNIV PR, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices
When Alison Piepmeier-scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome-died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring the important research of their friend and colleague, as well as adding new perspectives to her work.
Based on interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome, as well as women who terminated their pregnancies because their fetus was identified as having the condition, Unexpected paints an intimate, nuanced picture of reproductive choice in today's world. Piepmeier takes us inside her own daughter's life, showing how Down syndrome is misunderstood, stigmatized, and condemned, particularly in the context of prenatal testing.
At a time when medical technology is rapidly advancing, Unexpected provides a much-needed perspective on our complex, and frequently troubling, understanding of Down syndrome.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alison Piepmeier was Director and Professor of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She was the author of Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, among other books.

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Verlag
NEW YORK UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1479879959
ISBN 13 
9781479879953
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Anzahl der Seiten
200
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