The Tentative Pregnancy

As more and more women over 30 are having children, amniocentesis, primarily used as a test for Down's syndrome, is becoming a routine part of prenatal care. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman shows how this simple procedure can alter the way we think about childbirth and parenthood and force us to confront agonizing dilemmas: what do you do if there is a "problem" with the foetus? What kind of support is available if you decide to bring up a handicapped child? How can you come to terms with the decision to terminate a wanted pregnancy?

Rothman, Barbara Katz

Parenting & Relationships

Penguin??Books

Analyzes from a feminist perspective childbirth in America and why women are not in control of it

In Labor

Medical Books

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The new genetics and race, illness, and procreation. Scientists are racing to unravel the code of life in our DNA sequences. But once we know the code, will we know what life means? Will we know what to do with the powerful ― healing, destructive, and marketable ― information we will have? Barbara Katz Rothman's warm, learned, passionate, and humorous voice is just the one we need to guide us through some of the most loaded issues and technologies of our time ― ones that bear on the most intimate aspects of our lives. Her astute observations about the new genetics are combined with personal reflections: about raising a black child; the risks of cancer; midwives and pregnancy; the social web into which we are born; motherhood; time, growth, chance, and all the indefinable things that make us human. She helps us to think about the place of genetic science in our own lives, its role in our social world, and how we choose to think about human life itself. A genetic map will take us places, but we need an imagination to see the relationship between DNA and public policy, between genes and the society we live in, and to understand why human life can't be reduced to genetics. Rothman inspires that imagination, in a book that is essential reading.

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are

Health, Fitness & Dieting

W.W.Norton&Company

The author advocates a social policy for dealing with mothers and motherhood that is consistent with feminist politics and feminist theory. She suggests how to incorporate technological and scientific advances into social policy.

Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchal Society

In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace

Women's Health

The Tentative Pregnancy: How Amniocentesis Changes the Experience of Motherhood

The new genetics and race, illness, and procreation. Scientists are racing to unravel the code of life in our DNA sequences. But once we know the code, will we know what life means? Will we know what to do with the powerful ― healing, destructive, and marketable ― information we will have? Barbara Katz Rothman's warm, learned, passionate, and humorous voice is just the one we need to guide us through some of the most loaded issues and technologies of our time ― ones that bear on the most intimate aspects of our lives. Her astute observations about the new genetics are combined with personal reflections: about raising a black child; the risks of cancer; midwives and pregnancy; the social web into which we are born; motherhood; time, growth, chance, and all the indefinable things that make us human. She helps us to think about the place of genetic science in our own lives, its role in our social world, and how we choose to think about human life itself. A genetic map will take us places, but we need an imagination to see the relationship between DNA and public policy, between genes and the society we live in, and to understand why human life can't be reduced to genetics. Rothman inspires that imagination, in a book that is essential reading.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States (Perspectives on Gender)

Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization ― best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent ― and a rhetoric of women’s "choices" and "the natural," women and their midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses labor on. Laboring On offers the voices of all of these practitioners, all women trying to help women, as they struggle with this increasingly split vision of birth.   Updating Barbara Katz Rothman's now-classic In Labor, the first feminist sociological analysis of birth in the United States, Laboring On gives a comprehensive picture of the ever-changing American birth practices and often conflicting visions of birth practitioners. The authors deftly weave compelling accounts of birth work, by midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses, into the larger sociohistorical context of health care practices and activism and offer provocative arguments about the current state of affairs and the future of birth in America.

Simonds, Wendy

Meltzer Norman, Bari

Routledge

Arts & Photography

Music

VIKING

Provides up-to-date information on prenatal practices, infant care, parenting decisions, and birthing alternatives

The Encyclopedia of Childbearing/a Guide to Prenatal Practices, Birth Alternatives, Infant Care, and Parenting Decisions for the '90s (Henry Holt Mystery Series)

Henry Holt Co.

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The Tentative Pregnancy

In Labor

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are

Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchal Society

In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace

The Tentative Pregnancy: How Amniocentesis Changes the Experience of Motherhood

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are

Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States (Perspectives on Gender)

The Tentative Pregnancy

The Encyclopedia of Childbearing/a Guide to Prenatal Practices, Birth Alternatives, Infant Care, and Parenting Decisions for the '90s (Henry Holt Mystery Series)