Baby's First Picture : : Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects / / Lisa M. Mitchell.

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 criti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introducing Ultrasound Fetal Imaging
  • 2. Opening the Black Box: The Ontology of Fetal Ultrasound Images
  • 3. The View from the Field
  • 4. Being Pregnant and Coming to Know the Fetus
  • 5. 'Showing the Baby': Sonographers' Accounts of Fetal Images
  • 6. 'Seeing the Baby': Women's Perspectives on Ultrasound
  • 7. Reconnections: Women, Ultrasound, and Reproductive Politics
  • 8. Re-Visions: Other Ways of Seeing
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index