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anti-abortion clinics
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ethnographic research
imagery
keepsake ultrasound
medical anthropology
political.
pro-life
social
sociocultural context
The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram
ultrasound technology
United States
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- ISBN 9780813543642
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
This book offers much-needed critical awareness of the less easily recognized ways in which ultrasound technology is profoundly social and political in the United States today.
Janelle S. Taylor is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Washington.
