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Imaging and imagining the fetus : the development of obstetric ultrasound / Malcolm Nicolson and John E.E. Fleming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicolson, Malcolm, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ultrasonics in obstetrics--Scotland--History.
- Ultrasonics in obstetrics.
- Fetus--Ultrasonic imaging--Scotland--History.
- Fetus.
- Fetus--Ultrasonic imaging.
- Diffusion of innovations--Scotland.
- Diffusion of innovations.
- Donald, Ian, 1910-1987.
- Donald, Ian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination.".
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0824-4
- OCLC:
- 829387582
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