The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram : : Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction / / Janelle S. Taylor.
In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the full sociocultural context of ultrasound technology and imagery. Drawing upon ethnographic research both within and beyond the medical setting, Taylor shows how ultrasound has entered into public consumer...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 p.) :; 15 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sonographers and the Making of the Public Fetus
- 3. Obstetrical Ultrasound between Medical Practice and Public Culture
- 4. Love Machine: The Theory of Ultrasound Bonding
- 5. Prenatal Diagnosis, Pregnancy, and Consumption
- 6. Entertaining Fetuses: Keepsake Ultrasound and Crisis Pregnancy Centers
- 7. Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR