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The Visualised Foetus

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The Visualised Foetus book

A Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery

The Visualised Foetus

DOI link for The Visualised Foetus

The Visualised Foetus book

A Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery
ByJulie Roberts
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 17 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315551746
Pages 176 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315551746
SubjectsHumanities, Social Sciences
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Roberts, J. (2012). The Visualised Foetus. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315551746

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

Ultrasound and its Application to Obstetrics

ByClinical and Social Dilemmas

chapter 3|18 pages

Feminism and the Celebrity Foetus

chapter 4|17 pages

The Ultimate Image in the Abortion Debate?

chapter 5|21 pages

Bonding through Spectatorship

chapter 6|20 pages

Bonding scans as ‘biotourism’?

chapter 7|20 pages

The Public Family Foetus Online

chapter 8|14 pages

Concluding Thoughts

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