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Autore |
Nicolson Malcolm <1952-> |
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Titolo |
Imaging and imagining the fetus : the development of obstetric ultrasound / / Malcolm Nicolson and John E.E. Fleming |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FlemingJohn E. E <1934-> (John Eric Edgcumbe) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ultrasonics in obstetrics - Scotland - History |
Ultrasonics in obstetrics |
Fetus - Ultrasonic imaging - Scotland - History |
Fetus - Ultrasonic imaging |
Diffusion of innovations - Scotland |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination.". |
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