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Introduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval, ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information and better prenatal and general health care. In Fixing the Image Jenna Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of fixingwhich invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one is addictedto illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with practices of care and neglect across different domains. Fixing the Image thus provides a method for study

Fixing the Image

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      Publisher University of Washington Press
      Published 6 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9780295750606
      978-0295750606
      ISBN-10 029575060X
      Also in:
      Asian history Social and cultural anthropology

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      Book Synopsis
      Introduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval, ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information and better prenatal and general health care. In Fixing the Image Jenna Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of fixingwhich invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one is addictedto illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with practices of care and neglect across different domains. Fixing the Image thus provides a method for study

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