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The Visualised Foetus - A Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Visualised Foetus - A Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The latest three- and four dimensional images produced by modern
ultrasound technology offer strikingly realistic representations of
the foetus - representations that have further transformed
experiences of pregnancy, the public understanding of foetal
existence and the rhetoric of the abortion debate. Presenting a
timely feminist engagement with this new technology, The Visualised
Foetus explores the widespread familiarity with and popularity of
this new technology within the context of a longer history of
foetal visualisations. The book offers an array of case studies
that examine the diffusion of 3/4D ultrasound images beyond the
clinic and the implications of this new technology for biopolitics
in the European and American context. With attention to the
non-diagnostic and commercial use of 3/4D images, the impact of
3/4D ultrasound within the abortion debate, and new claims that
ultrasound aids maternal-foetal bonding, The Visualised Foetus
demonstrates the tension between the social and medical
significances of foetal ultrasound, the pleasures and dangers of
foetal imagery for women, the contested status of ultrasonography
as 'scientific' imagery, and struggles over the authority to define
and interpret ultrasound imagery. As such, it will appeal to
scholars of the sociology of medicine and the body, social theory
and gender and cultural studies, as well as those with interest in
science and technology studies.
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