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Imaging and imagining the fetus : the development of obstetric ultrasound /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicolson, Malcolm, 1952-
Other Authors: Fleming, John E. E. (John Eric Edgcumbe), 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Donald, Ian, > 1910-1987.
Politics > Scotland.
History, 20th Century > Scotland.
Fetal Diseases > diagnosis > Scotland.
Diffusion of Innovation > Scotland.
Ultrasonography, Prenatal > instrumentation > Scotland.
Ultrasonography, Prenatal > history > Scotland.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.