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Book SynopsisThese images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, but they live vividly in the human imagination.
Trade ReviewThis book, like the work that led to the development of the world's first successful ultrasound scanning technology, is a pioneering effort. -- Nano Khilnani Biz India Magazine An excellent historical account and celebration of one of the unsung heroes of modern obstetrics. -- Marcellina Coker Obs Gynae & Midwifery News I have learnt a lot from this well researched book. It contributes to a lively field in a novel way, and raises many interesting questions. -- Tatjana Buklijas Social History of Medicine An important contribution to our understanding of ultrasound fetal imaging and to literature on the history of medicine, science, and technology. -- Lisa M. Mitchell Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: Historiographies of Obstetrics
2. Diagnostic Ultrasound before Thomas Brown
3. Ian Donald before Ultrasound I: St. Thomas's Hospital and the Royal Air Force
4. Ian Donald before Ultrasound II: Hammersmith and Glasgow
5. A-Scope Investigations in Glasgow
6. The First Contact Scanner
7. The Automatic Scanner and the Diasonograph
8. Behind the Iron Curtain: Ultrasound and the Fetus
9. Diffusion, Controversy, and Commodification
10. Ian Donald after Ultrasound: Contraception and Abortion
11. Maternity and Technology
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