LEADER 04277nam 2200721 450 001 9910456439403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-03362-X 010 $a9786612033629 010 $a1-4426-7114-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442671140 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003836 035 $a(EBL)3255492 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289580 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232510 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289580 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401432 035 $a(PQKB)10954421 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600693 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255492 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671211 035 $a(DE-B1597)464198 035 $a(OCoLC)944178492 035 $a(OCoLC)999377744 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442671140 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671211 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256929 035 $a(OCoLC)666916204 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003836 100 $a20160922h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBaby's first picture $eultrasound and the politics of fetal subjects /$fLisa M. Mitchell 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2001. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-8349-8 311 $a0-8020-4810-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Introducing Ultrasound Fetal Imaging -- $t2. Opening the Black Box: The Ontology of Fetal Ultrasound Images -- $t3. The View from the Field -- $t4. Being Pregnant and Coming to Know the Fetus -- $t5. 'Showing the Baby': Sonographers' Accounts of Fetal Images -- $t6. 'Seeing the Baby': Women's Perspectives on Ultrasound -- $t7. Reconnections: Women, Ultrasound, and Reproductive Politics -- $t8. Re-Visions: Other Ways of Seeing -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAppearing 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 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. 606 $aFetus$xUltrasonic imaging$xSocial aspects 606 $aFetus$xUltrasonic imaging$zQue?bec (Province)$zMontre?al$vCase studies 606 $aPregnant women$zQue?bec (Province)$zMontre?al$xAttitudes 606 $aMedical personnel$zQue?bec (Province)$zMontre?al$xAttitudes 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFetus$xUltrasonic imaging$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aFetus$xUltrasonic imaging 615 0$aPregnant women$xAttitudes. 615 0$aMedical personnel$xAttitudes. 676 $a618.3/207543 700 $aMitchell$b Lisa Meryn$01031453 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456439403321 996 $aBaby's first picture$92448850 997 $aUNINA