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The public life of the fetal sonogram : technology, consumption, and the politics of reproduction / Janelle S. Taylor.

Title
The public life of the fetal sonogram : technology, consumption, and the politics of reproduction / Janelle S. Taylor.
Author
Taylor, Janelle S., 1965-
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.

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xi, 205 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the full sociocultural context of ultrasound technology and imagery. Drawing upon ethnographic research both within and beyond the medical setting, Taylor shows how ultrasound has entered into public consumer culture in the United States. The book documents and critically analyzes societal uses for ultrasound such as nondiagnostic "keepsake" ultrasound businesses that foster a new consumer market for these blurry, monochromatic images of eagerly awaited babies, and anti-abortion clinics that use ultrasound in an attempt to make women bond with the fetuses they carry, inciting a pro-life state of mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Studies in medical anthropology
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
  • Studies in medical anthropology.
Subject
  • Commodification
  • Fetus > Psychological aspects
  • Fetus > Social aspects
  • Marketing of Health Services
  • Mothers > psychology
  • Prenatal care > Marketing
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal > psychology
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal > utilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Sonographers and the making of the public fetus -- Obstetrical ultrasound between medical practice and public culture -- Love machine : the theory of ultrasound bonding -- Prenatal diagnosis, pregnancy, and consumption -- Entertaining fetuses : keepsake ultrasound and crisis pregnancy centers.
ISBN
  • 9780813543635 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813543630 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813543642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813543649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007051732
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library