Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic

Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic

Title: Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic | Author(s): Gareth M. Thomas | Publisher: Routledge | Year: 2017  | Language: English Pages : 221 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf 
 
In the UK and beyond, Down’s syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does screening persist, particularly in light of research that highlights pregnant women’s ambivalent and problematic experiences with it?Drawing on an ethnography of Down’s syndrome screening 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…