Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive PoliticsAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 2 March 2017
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Drawing on an ethnography of prenatal screening for Downs syndrome in two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why we are so invested in this practice and what effects this has on those involved. Informed by theoretical approaches that privilege the mundane and micro practices, discourses, materials, and rituals of everyday life, this book describes the banal world of the clinic and, in particular, the professionals contained within it who are responsible for delivering this programme. In so doing, it illustrates how Downs syndrome screening is `downgraded and subsequently stabilised as a `routine part of a pregnancy. Further, the book captures how this routinisation is deepened by a systematic, but subtle, framing of Downs syndrome as a negative pregnancy outcome. Here, Thomas identifies how Downs syndrome screening is embroiled in both new and familiar debates surrounding pregnancy, ethics, choice, diagnosis, care, disability, and parenthood.
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