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"I can feel it -- my baby is healthy": women's experiences with prenatal diagnosis in Switzerland.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Leuzinger, Monika Rambert, Bigna |
| Copyright Year | 1988 |
| Abstract | Synopsis—Prenatal diagnosis allows for the detection of genetic anomalies. In interviews with 10 women in Switzerland we wanted to know how they had arrived at their decision “prenatal diagnosis yes or no”; what role doctors played and how their social environment had reacted to the offer of prenatal diagnosis and the women's decision. We asked about their feelings and anxieties and about the psychological mechanisms which led to the women's decisions. The interviews revealed that prenatal diagnosis is a tool with which the discriminatory practice of social selection takes place, but that this is hidden behind liberal ideologies of so-called “selfdetermination.” Women's fear of giving birth to a handicapped child; the social stigma attached to bring up a disabled child, the urgent need for resistance against prenatal diagnosis as a eugenic control mechanism —these are topics explored in this article. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 11650397 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 1 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.finrrage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Experiences_with_Prenatal_Diagnosis_in_Switzerland.pdf |
| Journal | Reproductive and genetic engineering |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
