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          Biography.

        1. Biography.
        2. Rayna Rapp is a professor of anthropology at New York University.
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        4. As babies with disabilities grow, many assumptions about kinship relations, domestic cycles, and community membership are challenged as well.
        5. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp are Professors in the Department of Anthropology and Center for Disability Studies of New York University.

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          Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

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          Testing Women, Testing the Fetus by Rayna Rapp is a book, published in 1999, about analysis of the social repercussions of prenatal genetic testing.

          Rapp combines the data she collected herself with historical context of amniocentesis and genetic counseling to argue that amniocentesis and those abortions following positive test results is a social decision as much as an individual one.[1]

          Methodology of research

          Beginning with her own prenatal diagnosis experience in 1983, Rapp spent approximately 15 years conducting research on the effects and experiences of genetic testing on women.[2] Her research was spread across various locations in New York City.[3]

          Rapp used a method of research known as "participant observation" to gather data for this project.[1] For her, this meant interviewing women, geneticists, and obstetricians; visiting laboratories, and prenatal testing centers; and working al