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Prenatal Genetic Testing and Screening: Constructing Needs and Reinforcing Inequities

1 Jan 1991

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This Article considers the influence and implications of the application of genetic technologies to definitions of disease and to the treatment of illness. The concept of "geneticization" is introduced to emphasize the dominant discourse in today's stories of health and disease and the social construction of biological phenomenon is described. The reassurance, choice and control supposedly provided by prenatal...

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PMID: 1877608
DOI: 10.1017/s0098858800007917

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