Lisa M. Mitchell,Baby's First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects, University of Toronto   

 Press (October 27, 2001)

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 Book Description
 Appearing through developments in medicine, in volatile debates over abortion rights, in popular guides to pregnancy, and in 

 advertisements for cars and long-distance telephone plans, the fetus has become an increasingly familiar part of our social 

 landscape in Canada. Lisa Mitchell provides a critical anthropological perspective on the fetal subject, particularly as it emerges

 through the practice of ultrasound imaging.

 Seeing the baby,' is now a routine and expected part of pregnancy and prenatal care in Canada. Conventionally understood as a

 neutral and passive technology, ultrasound appears to be a 'window' through which to observe fetal sex, age, size, physical

 normality, and behavior. However, Mitchell argues, what is seen through ultrasound is neither self-evident nor natural, but

 historically and culturally contingent and subject to a wide range of interpretation.

 Drawing upon fieldwork over the past ten years, the author includes observations at ultrasound clinics, interviews with pregnant 

 women and their partners, and a discussion on how ultrasound's echoes become meaningful as 'baby's first picture' - a snapshot of

 the fetus in utero.

 Throughout, Mitchell probes our acceptance of this technology, our willingness to take fetal imaging for granted, and illuminates the

 links between this technologically mediated 'fetal reality' and the politics of gender and reproduction in Canada.

 About the Author

 Lisa M. Mitchell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

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