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Author:

Nicolson, Malcolm, 1952-

Title:

Imaging and imagining the fetus : the development of obstetric ultrasound / Malcolm Nicolson and John E.E. Fleming.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Donald, Ian,--1910-1987.
Fetus--Ultrasonic imaging.
Ultrasonics in obstetrics.
Donald, Ian,--1910-1987.
Ultrasonography, Prenatal--history--Scotland.
Ultrasonography, Prenatal--instrumentation--Scotland.
Diffusion of Innovation--Scotland.
Fetal Diseases--diagnosis--Scotland.
History, 20th Century--Scotland.
Politics--Scotland.

Other Authors:

Fleming, John E. E. (John Eric Edgcumbe), 1934-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1421408244 (electronic)
9781421408248 (electronic)
1421407930 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9781421407937 (hdbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)793073836

LCCN:

2012017646

Locations:

I6OX771 -- Mercy College Library (Des Moines)