Baby's first picture : ultrasound and the politics of fetal subjects / Lisa M. Mitchell.

Contents Introducing ultrasound fetal imaging -- Opening the black box: the ontology of fetal ultrasound images -- The view from the field -- Being pregnant and coming to know the fetus -- 'Showing the baby': sonographers' accounts of fetal images -- 'Seeing the baby': women's perspectives on ultrasound -- Reconnections: women, ultrasound, and reproductive politics -- Re-vision: other ways of seeing.
Review "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 critical anthropological perspective on the fetal subject, particularly as it emerges through the practice of ultrasound imaging." "Drawing upon fieldwork conducted 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."--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index.
Issued in other formPrint version: Mitchell, Lisa Meryn. Baby's first picture. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001 9780802048103
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781442671140 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1442671149 (electronic bk.)
Stock number22573/ctt573vr JSTOR

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