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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825916203321

Autore

Nicolson Malcolm <1952->

Titolo

Imaging and imagining the fetus : the development of obstetric ultrasound / / Malcolm Nicolson and John E.E. Fleming

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-4214-0824-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FlemingJohn E. E <1934-> (John Eric Edgcumbe)

Disciplina

618.3/207543

Soggetti

Ultrasonics in obstetrics - Scotland - History

Ultrasonics in obstetrics

Fetus - Ultrasonic imaging - Scotland - History

Fetus - Ultrasonic imaging

Diffusion of innovations - Scotland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Diagnostic ultrasound before Thomas Brown -- Ian Donald before ultrasound : St. Thomas's Hospital and the Royal Air Force -- Ian Donald before ultrasound : Hammersmith and Glasgow -- A-scope investigations in Glasgow -- The first contact scanner -- The automatic scanner and the diasonograph -- "Behind the Iron Curtain" : ultrasound and the fetus -- Diffusion, controversy, and commodification -- Ian Donald after ultrasound : contraception and abortion -- Maternity and technology.

Sommario/riassunto

These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination.".