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.
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Rayna Rapp 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.
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Rayna Rapp co-authored many articles with Faye Ginsburg, including Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship, a topic the pair has continued to research.
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Rayna Rapp published Testing Women, Testing the Women in 1999 after fifteen years of field work during her time there.
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In 2001, Rayna Rapp became a professor of anthropology at New York University, acquiring the role of associate chair of the department in 2010.
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Rayna Rapp served on the executive board of the American Anthropological Association from 2012 to 2015.
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Rayna Rapp has spoken at multiple universities and conferences around the United States and Europe, including the University of Texas at Austin, University of Kentucky, and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.
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Rayna Rapp has acted as mentor and advisor to feminist anthropologists Khiara Bridges and Elise Andaya.
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Rayna Rapp believes "there is 'a widening chasm' between the medical-scientific utopian dreams of human perfectibility and the public's understanding of human diversity and impairment".
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Rayna Rapp stresses the "highly stratified and gendered benefits and burdens" these types of technologies carry and the audience they are marketed to.
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Rayna Rapp has extended this work to examine how human disability intersects with prejudice, diversity, and "discrimination based on racial-ethnic, class, national, religious, and gendered backgrounds".
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Rayna Rapp drew on her own experience with amniocentesis in her approach towards the book, participating in fifteen years of fieldwork and engaging with laboratory technicians, geneticists, support groups, families of children with Down syndrome, genetic counselors, women who underwent amniocentesis or who refused the test, and some male partners.
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Rayna Rapp suggests ideological links between abortion rights and disability rights activists, and argues that society should cultivate better communication between the two "realms".