In this article, we define the concept of “risk work,” which aims to make visible working
practices to assess or manage risk, in order to subject these practices to sociological …

Background A dominant context for pregnant women in the Western world is medical
technologies such as ultrasound and screening. It has been argued that such technologies …

In this short commentary, we reflect on how ideas about disability intersect with prenatal
technologies and what this likely means for the future landscape of reproductive medicine. In …

Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018 In the UK
and beyond, Down's syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal …

Background Anxiety in pregnancy and postnatally is highly prevalent but under‐recognized.
To identify perinatal anxiety, assessment tools must be acceptable to women who are …

The proliferation of risk logics within public and private sector organisational contexts where
many professionals work has been studied as a phenomenon itself, as governance and in …

This article is based on an ethnographic study of pregnant couples' embodied, emotional,
and moral experiences of second‐trimester selective abortion in Denmark. Drawing on 16 …

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a genomic technology used to predict the chance of
a foetus having a genetic condition. Despite the immediacy of this technology's integration …

This third edition of Toward a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice will
assist nurses and all health care providers to take up the challenge of embedding ethics in …

Public health policies to prevent disease within populations are giving rise to shifting
patterns of healthcare delivery in the late modern era. There is an inherent tension in …