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Baby's First Picture : Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects /

"Appearing through developments in medicine, in volatile debates over abortion rights, in popular guides to pregnancy, and in advertisements for cars and long-distance telephone plans, the fetus has become an increasingly familiar part of our social landscape in Canada. Lisa Mitchell provides a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mitchell, Lisa Meryn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing ultrasound fetal imaging
  • Opening the black box: the ontology of fetal ultrasound images
  • The view from the field
  • Being pregnant and coming to know the fetus
  • 'Showing the baby': sonographers' accounts of fetal images
  • 'Seeing the baby': women's perspectives on ultrasound
  • Reconnections: women, ultrasound, and reproductive politics
  • Re-vision: other ways of seeing.