Download or read book Testing Women, Testing the Fetus written by Rayna Rapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing technologies. Based on the author's decade of research and her own personal experiences with amniocentesis, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus explores the "geneticization" of family life in all its complexity and diversity.