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- Title
Reflections: On Hard Work.
- Authors
Rothman, Barbara Katz
- Abstract
The article discusses the author's experiences of writing his first book on women's experiences with amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis. Author had a fairly clear sense of the research questions. He expected, for example, for there to be some delay in feeling movement among women who had an amniocentesis. Instead of endless hours of observations, he had pretty straightforward hypotheses that could be tested with pretty straightforward questionnaires. The author has discussed a few cases of the experience women face when they use amniocentesis. According to the author, the new reproductive technology has made these women suffer. Thoughtless and unfeeling husbands made them suffer. At every level, from theft most intimate relationships to the medical institutions, these women suffered. The constant going back and forth, between these women and their grief, having aborted because their babies would not be accomplishing and growing and developing; and he was in a better position to understand the meaning of mother love. He wanted to believe that mother love is just there, that it does not need to be earned. The research turned out quite differently than he had expected. The grief became the core of the project, and everything else fell in around it.
- Subjects
AMNIOCENTESIS; PRENATAL diagnosis; AMNIOCENTESIS complications; ABORTION; REPRODUCTIVE technology; MATERNAL love
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1986, Vol 9, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00988248