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Imaging and Imagining the Fetus : The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound /
This book tells the story of how engineers and clinicians developed the ultrasound diagnostic scanner and how its use in obstetrics became controversial. To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that i...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Historiographies of Obstetrics
- Diagnostic ultrasound before Thomas Brown
- Ian Donald before ultrasound I : St. Thomas's Hospital and the Royal Air Force
- Ian Donald before ultrasound II : Hammersmith and Glasgow
- A-scope investigations in Glasgow
- The first contact scanner
- The automatic scanner and the diasonograph
- Behind the Iron Curtain : ultrasound and the fetus
- Diffusion, controversy, and commodification
- Ian Donald after ultrasound : contraception and abortion
- Maternity and technology.