Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome

by Alison Piepmeier

Book Overview

What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices

When Alison Piepmeier--scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome--died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479879959
• ISBN13: 9781479879953
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"