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<\/a><\/p>\nIn Imperfect Pregnancies, Ilana Lo\u0308wy argues that the generalization of prenatal diagnosis has radically changed the experience of pregnancy for tens of millions of women worldwide.<\/p>\n
Although most women are reassured that their future child is developing well, others face a stressful period of waiting for results, uncertain prognosis, and difficult decisions.<\/p>\n
Lo\u0308wy follows the rise of biomedical technologies that made prenatal diagnosis possible and investigates the institutional, sociocultural, economic, legal, and political consequences of their widespread diffusion.<\/p>\n
Because prenatal diagnosis is linked to the contentious issue of selective termination of pregnancy for a fetal anomaly, debates on this topic have largely centered on the rejection of human imperfection and the notion that we are now perched on a slippery slope that will lead to new eugenics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Ilana Lo\u0308wy is emerita senior research fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research<\/a>\u00a0and has published some papers in Manguinhos:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Cancer, women and public health<\/a>\u00a0– Researcher Ilana L\u00f6wy follows the early history of the pap test, its consequences and controversies.<\/p>\n Zika virus and rubella: similarities and differences<\/a>\u00a0– Researcher Ilana L\u00f6wy, from the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche M\u00e9dicale Paris, traces a parallel between the current zika epidemics in Brazil and past rubella outbreaks.<\/p>\n L\u00f6wy, Ilana and Sanabria, Emilia. A biomedicaliza\u00e7\u00e3o de corpos brasileiros: perspectivas antropol\u00f3gicas<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Mar 2016, vol.23, no.1.<\/p>\n L\u00f6wy, Ilana.\u00a0Les m\u00e9taphores de l’immunologie:\u00a0guerre et paix<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, June 1996, vol.3, no.1.<\/p>\n