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UNINA9910456439403321 |
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Mitchell Lisa Meryn |
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Baby's first picture : ultrasound and the politics of fetal subjects / / Lisa M. Mitchell |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 |
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1-282-03362-X |
9786612033629 |
1-4426-7114-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Fetus - Ultrasonic imaging - Social aspects |
Fetus - Ultrasonic imaging - Québec (Province) - Montréal |
Pregnant women - Québec (Province) - Montréal - Attitudes |
Medical personnel - Québec (Province) - Montréal - Attitudes |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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.'Seeing the baby,' is now a routine and expected part of |
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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. |
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UNINA9910454547003321 |
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Autore |
Davis Gayle |
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"The cruel madness of love" [[electronic resource] ] : sex, syphilis and psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 / / Gayle Davis |
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2008 |
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94-012-0631-7 |
1-4416-0126-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
Clio medica, , 0045-7183 ; ; 85 |
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Neurosyphilis - Scotland - History |
Psychiatry - Scotland - History |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-274) and index. |
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Preliminary material / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Abbreviations / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- List of Figures / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- List of Tables / Editors The Cruel |
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Madness of Love -- List of Images / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Acknowledgements / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Introduction / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Scottish Institutional Provision for the Insane / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Clinical Diagnosis / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- The Impact of the Laboratory / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Treatment / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Aetiology and Social Epidemiology / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Conclusions / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Appendices / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Sources and Select Bibliography / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love -- Index / Editors The Cruel Madness of Love. |
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Against a backdrop of contemporary social and sexual concerns, and potent fears surrounding the moral and physical ‘degeneration’ of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century society, ‘The Cruel Madness of Love’ explores a critical period in the developing relationship between syphilis and insanity. General paralysis of the insane (GPI), the most commonly diagnosed of the neurosyphilitic disorders, has been devastating both in terms of its severity and incidence. Using the rich laboratory and asylum records of lowland Scotland as a case study, Gayle Davis examines the evolution of GPI as a disease category from a variety of perspectives: social, medical, and pathological. Through exploring case notes and the impact of new diagnostic techniques and therapies, such as the Wassermann Test and Malarial Therapy, the reader gains a unique insight into both patients and practitioners. Significant insights are gained into the socio–sexual background and medical experience of patients, as well as the clinical ideas and judgmental behaviour of the practitioners confronting this disease. ‘The Cruel Madness of Love’ will be of interest to anyone wishing to explore the historical relationship between sexuality, morality and disease. |
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