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Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis
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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 d...