Rayna Rapp
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Anthropology professor at New York University
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Rayna Rapp's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rayna Rapp is a professor and associate chair of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender and health; the politics of reproduction; science, technology, and genetics; and disability in the United States and Europe. She has contributed over 80 published works to the field of anthropology, independently, as a co-author, editor, and foreword-writing, including Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent's Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge. Her 1999 book, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, received multiple awards upon release and has been praised for providing "invaluable insights into the first generation of women who had to decide whether or not to terminate their pregnancies on the basis of amniocentesis result". She co-authored many articles with Faye Ginsburg, including Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship, a topic the pair has continued to research.
Rayna Rapp's Published Works
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Published Works
- Testing women, testing the fetus (1999) (716)
- The politics of reproduction. (1991) (649)
- Conceiving the new world order : the global politics of reproduction (1996) (469)
- Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship (2001) (209)
- The use of race variables in genetic studies of complex traits and the goal of reducing health disparities: a transdisciplinary perspective. (2005) (176)
- Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis: The Meanings of Bioscience in a Multicultural World (1998) (140)
- Dental anomalies in children: a clinical and radiographic survey. (1984) (135)
- Family and Class in Contemporary America (1978) (117)
- Gender, body, biomedicine: how some feminist concerns dragged reproduction to the center of social theory. (2001) (108)
- Moral pioneers: women, men and fetuses on a frontier of reproductive technology. (1988) (106)
- Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics (2008) (96)
- Chromosomes and Communication: The Discourse of Genetic Counseling (1988) (79)
- Sex and Society: A Research Note from Social History and Anthropology (1981) (71)
- Reverberations: Disability and the New Kinship Imaginary (2011) (68)
- Examining Family History (1979) (66)
- Articulating hidden histories : exploring the influence of Eric R. Wolf (1996) (48)
- An investigation of the mechanism of neural impulse transmission in human teeth. (1959) (38)
- The distribution of nerves in human primary teeth (1967) (38)
- Chasing Science: Children’s Brains, Scientific Inquiries, and Family Labors (2011) (38)
- Review Essay: Anthropology (1979) (37)
- Reproductive Entanglements: Body, State, and Culture in the Dys/Regulation of Child-Bearing (2011) (35)
- Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Extra chromosomes and blue tulips: medico-familial interpretations (2000) (30)
- A Child Surrounds this Brain: The Future of Neurological Difference According to Scientists, Parents and Diagnosed Young Adults (2011) (28)
- 14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet (2020) (27)
- Release of calcium ions from pulp-capping materials. (1978) (25)
- Amniocentesis in sociocultural perspective (1993) (25)
- Sociocultural differences in the impact of amniocentesis: an anthropological research report. (1993) (24)
- Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human (2020) (23)
- Toward an Ethically Sensitive Implementation of Noninvasive Prenatal Screening in the Global Context. (2017) (22)
- Gender and class: An archaeology of knowledge concerning the origin of the state (1977) (21)
- Entangled ethnography: imagining a future for young adults with learning disabilities. (2013) (19)
- Clinical management of ectodermal dysplasia. (1995) (19)
- Women, Religion, and Archaic Civilizations: an introduction (1978) (18)
- On Nature and the Human (2010) (17)
- Ultrastructure of fenestrated capillaries in human dental pulps. (1977) (17)
- Demonstration of cholinesterase in teeth. (1958) (17)
- Big data, small kids: Medico-scientific, familial and advocacy visions of human brains (2016) (17)
- An investigation of accessory foramina in furcation areas of human primary molars: Part 1. SEM observations of frequency, size and location of accessory foramina in the internal and external furcation areas. (1993) (17)
- The occlusion and occlusal patterns of artificial posterior teeth (1954) (16)
- Ethnocultural diversity and genetic counseling training: The challenge for a twenty-first century (1993) (14)
- Pedodontic care for the deaf and blind. (1966) (13)
- Fetal Reflections: Confessions of Two Feminist Anthropologists as Mutual Informants (1999) (13)
- Cripping the new normal: Making disability count (2017) (13)
- An investigation of accessory canals in furcation areas of human primary molars: Part 2. Latex perfusion studies of the internal and external furcation areas to demonstrate accessory canals. (1993) (12)
- 11. Risky business: genetic counseling in a shifting world (1995) (12)
- Communicating about chromosomes: patients, providers, and cultural assumptions. (1997) (12)
- THE THICK SOCIAL MATRIX FOR BIOETHICS Anthropological Approaches (2006) (12)
- Idiopathic Hyperplasia of Gingivae Associated with Macrocheilia and Ankyloglossia: A Case Report (1955) (11)
- Encounters with aging: Mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America (1995) (11)
- A new design for space maintainers replacing prematurely lost first primary molars. (1983) (10)
- Radiographic anatomy of pulpal chambers of primary molars. (1983) (10)
- Making Disability Count: Demography, Futurity, and the Making of Disability Publics. Inhabitable Worlds Series. (2015) (8)
- Fluoride ion release from ultraviolet light-cured sealants containing sodium fluoride. (1985) (8)
- Comparison of Jet Injection and Needle-Syringe Injection Techniques in Production of Edema (1972) (7)
- The Paradox of Recognition: Success or Stigma for Children with Learning Disabilities (2011) (7)
- Race & Reproduction: An Enduring Conversation (2019) (7)
- The Twenties Backlash: Compulsory Heterosexuality, the Consumer Family and the Waning of Feminism (1983) (7)
- Cholinesterase enzymes in human primary teeth. (1967) (7)
- Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice (2013) (6)
- Eclipse of the gene and the return of divination. Commentaries. Author's reply (2005) (6)
- Alternative Modes of Reproduction: Other Views and Questions (1989) (6)
- A Colour Atlas of Clinical Conditions in Paedodontics (1978) (6)
- Vascular pathways within pulpal tissue of human primary teeth. (1992) (6)
- In vitro permeability of furcation dentin in permanent teeth. (1992) (5)
- The Social Distribution of Moxie: The Legacy of Christine Sleeter (2010) (5)
- The effect of pulpotomy using Formocresol on blood vessel architecture in primary anterior teeth of Macaca rhesus monkeys. (1982) (5)
- Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds (2012) (5)
- Enlarging reproduction, screening disability (2007) (5)
- Ritual of Reversion (1986) (5)
- Screening disabilities: Visual fields, public culture, and the atypical mind in the twenty-first century (2015) (4)
- Commentary: thinking through public health genomics. (2013) (4)
- Adaptation of composite resin restorative materials to retentive grooves of Class I cavity preparations. (1986) (4)
- Cherchez la Femme: Reproductive CRISPR and Women's Choices (2015) (4)
- A modified technique for perfusing blood vessels in pulps of extracted teeth. (1984) (4)
- Pain Conduction in Human Dental Tissues (1959) (4)
- Demonstration of Multiple Esterases of the Human Dental Pulp After Electrophoresis in Starch and Acrylamide Gels (1967) (3)
- Afterword: Unsettling Care for Anthropologists (2020) (3)
- DNA Dragnets and Race : Larger Social Context , History and Future (2008) (3)
- Prenatal Diagnosis: A Sociocultural Perspective on Diversity (2006) (3)
- Standing at the Crossroads of Genetic Testing: New Eugenics, Disability Consciousness, Women’s Work (2002) (3)
- Anthropologists Speak Out on Nuclear Disarmament (1984) (3)
- Constructing amniocentesis: Maternal and medical discourses (2014) (3)
- Vascular architecture of monkey primary dental pulps. (1983) (2)
- The 1920s: Feminism, Consumerism and Political Backlash in the United States (1986) (2)
- Comment following Margaret Lock’s “Comprehending embodiment in the Age of the Epigenome” (2015) (2)
- A Womb of One's Own (1988) (2)
- Enduring innovation in reproduction (2018) (2)
- Worlding the ‘new normal’ for young adults with disabilities (2018) (2)
- Confident futures: Community-based organizations as first responders and agents of change in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic (2021) (2)
- Presence of Acetylcholinesterase in Human Gingiva (1959) (2)
- Stylistic characteristics of the short sacred choral composition in the U.S.A., 1945-1960 (1971) (2)
- TRACKING THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT (1998) (1)
- Anthropology (1979) (1)
- : Love and Power in the Peasant Family: Rural France in the Nineteenth Century . Martine Segalen, Sarah Matthews. (1986) (1)
- Reprotech in France and the United States: Differences and similarities – An introduction (2020) (1)
- It Seems We've Stood and Talked Like This Before: Wisdom From the 1920s (1983) (1)
- Cognitive Disability: Towards an Ethics of Possibility (2018) (1)
- Foreword.: How/Shall We Consider the Fetus? (2017) (1)
- Reason To Believe (2006) (1)
- The Paradox of Recognition (2011) (1)
- Contents, Vol. 8, Supplement 1, 1993 (1993) (1)
- Epigenetics at work (2018) (1)
- ‘We are all in the image of God’: reproductive imaginaries and prenatal genetic testing in American Jewish communities (2020) (1)
- Cleft palate training offered by advanced pedodontic programs. (1984) (1)
- Cripping the future: Making disability count (2020) (1)
- Macroscopic sectioning of undecalcified tissues. (1992) (1)
- The Social Distribution of Moxie (2010) (1)
- A procedure for splitting human teeth to obtain intact pulp tissue, enamel and dentin. (1985) (1)
- A determination of the sensitivity of the dental pulp of primary maxillary anterior teeth to electrical stimuli in children with unilateral and bilateral clefts. (1988) (1)
- Peasant-Workers in the Tourist Industry: Whose Development? (1973) (1)
- A standpoint on science. (1992) (1)
- Book Review of Woman, Culture and Society (Michelle Rosaldo & Louise Lamphere) (1977) (0)
- [Steel crowns for deciduous teeth]. (1970) (0)
- Fluoroscopic image intensification as a tool for cholecystography. (1968) (0)
- Management of selected occlusal discrepancies of the mixed dentition. (1980) (0)
- [Vasoconstriction in the pericardial area of the pulmonary vein after i.v. injection of hypertonic NaCl solution]. (1960) (0)
- Enhancement of PiA ->Pi PiA threshold cross sections by in-medium Pi Pi final state (1999) (0)
- Quantification And 3D-reconstruction Of Atherosclerotic Plaques In Blood Vessels (1991) (0)
- A dental caries survey on Filipino school children. (1986) (0)
- Determination of image position in scanning electron microscopy (1984) (0)
- [Steel crowns for deciduous teeth]. (1970) (0)
- Lattice compression of frog skinned muscle fibers on photolysis of the caged calcium compound NP-EGTA (1997) (0)
- Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy by Melinda Cooper, Catherine Waldby (review) (2015) (0)
- “Not Dead Yet”: Changing Disability Imaginaries in the 21st Century (2015) (0)
- AAA DISTINGUISHED LECTURER RAYNA RAPP (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY) ENGENDERING THE FIELD: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STORY OF CONTINGENCY (2012) (0)
- The Discourse of Genetic Counseling (2016) (0)
- Book Review of The Inevitability of Patriarchy (Stephen Goldberg) (1977) (0)
- Chapter 3. Flexible Eugenics (2019) (0)
- 30. “Not Dead Yet”: Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century (2019) (0)
- Part 1: Public health genomics: Anthropological interventions in the quest for molecular medicine: (620772011-065) (2009) (0)
- #cripthevote: What’s the Crisis of Liberalism Got to Do With It? (2016) (0)
- SEVEN Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds (2020) (0)
- Book Review of A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility (Margery Wolf) (1993) (0)
- Mobilization: Peasants in Social History and Anthropology (1971) (0)
- Book Review of The Captured Womb (Ann Oakley) (1987) (0)
- Subject Index, Review Essays (1996) (0)
- Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. (1996) (0)
- Trains Bring Commerce and Tourism to the Appalachian Mountains (2016) (0)
- Book Review of The Politics of the New Reproductive Technology (Michelle Stanworth) & Made to Order: The Myth of Reproductive Progress (Patricia Spallone & Deborah L. Steinberg) (1988) (0)
- Book Review of Coup pour coup, (Cinema services, Paris) (1977) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers (2017) (0)
- Contested conceptions and misconceptions (2014) (0)
- Feminists and Pharmacrats (1985) (0)
- Book Review of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (Khiara Bridges) (2012) (0)
- FORUM On Nature and the Human (2010) (0)
- Big data, small kids: Medico-scientific, familial and advocacy visions of human brains (2016) (0)
- Anthropologies of Modernity (2005) (0)
- Not Your Mother’s Amniocentesis: genome-based blood screens in pregnancy (2015) (0)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: A Thrice‐Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility. Margery Wolf. (1993) (0)
- Producing and Mediating Science as a Worldview in Post-War American: Two Interviews (1996) (0)
- Enduring innovation in reproduction (2018) (0)
- Editorial Board (2011) (0)
- NIH workshop statement. (1993) (0)
- Imagining Disability Futures (2017) (0)
- Epigenetics at work (2018) (0)
- The Paradox of Recognition: Recognition Struggles over Children with Learning Disabilities (2011) (0)
- Book Review of Whose Knowledge? Whose Science? (Sandra Harding) (1992) (0)
- Gender on the Prenatal Horizon (2013) (0)
- “Genetic Citizenship”, Japanese language version (2006) (0)
- Imagining Gender Futures: Second in a Five‐Part Series on Engendering Anthropology (2007) (0)
- Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (review) (2012) (0)
- Women Under Attack, Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse (1979) (0)
- Poor Women, Powerful Men: America's Great Experiment in Family Planning. Martha C. Ward. (1988) (0)
- Book Reviews (1991) (0)
- AFA's Live Annual Review 2017 (2018) (0)
- Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice (2013) (0)
- Anthropology: Feminist Methodologies for the Science of Man? (2019) (0)
- Book Review of Love and Power in the Peasant Family (Martine Segalen) (1986) (0)
- Book Review of Feminism and Anthropology (Henrietta Moore) (1990) (0)
- No Judgments: Fieldwork on the Spectrum. The Ethnographic Case, For CommonPlaces. Somatosphere and the AAA working group for Science, Technology and Medicine (STM). (2015) (0)
- The Anthropology of Reproduction (2000) (0)
- Bob Scholte: A Personal Reminiscence (1988) (0)
- Book Review of Clinical Labors: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy. (Melinda Cooper and Katherine Waldby) (2014) (0)
- Building the airplane while flying it: tracking the transformation of novel sequencing practices into clinical services (2022) (0)
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