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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442671140
035 _a(DE-B1597)464198
035 _a(OCoLC)944178492
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aRG527.5.U48
_bM55 2001
072 7 _aSOC002010
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082 0 4 _a618.3/207543
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMitchell, Lisa M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBaby's First Picture :
_bUltrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects /
_cLisa M. Mitchell.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2001]
264 4 _c©2001
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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520 _aAppearing 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 critical anthropological perspective on the fetal subject, particularly as it emerges through the practice of ultrasound imaging.'Seeing the baby,' is now a routine and expected part of pregnancy and prenatal care in Canada. Conventionally understood as a neutral and passive technology, ultrasound appears to be a 'window' through which to observe fetal sex, age, size, physical normality, and behaviour. However, Mitchell argues, what is seen through ultrasound is neither self-evident nor natural, but historically and culturally contingent and subject to a wide range of interpretation.Drawing upon fieldwork over the past ten years, the author includes observations at ultrasound clinics, interviews with pregnant women and their partners, and a discussion on how ultrasound's echoes become meaningful as 'baby's first picture' - a snapshot of the fetus in utero.Throughout, Mitchell probes our acceptance of this technology, our willingness to take fetal imaging for granted, and illuminates the links between this technologically mediated 'fetal reality' and the politics of gender and reproduction in Canada.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aFetus
_xUltrasonic imaging
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aFetus
_xUltrasonic imaging
_zQuébec (Province)
_zMontréal
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aFetus
_xUltrasonic imaging.
650 0 _aFetus.
650 0 _aMedical personnel
_zQuébec (Province)
_zMontréal
_xAttitudes.
650 0 _aPregnancy.
650 0 _aPregnant women
_zQuébec (Province)
_zMontréal
_xAttitudes.
650 0 _aSocial perception.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442671140
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