Fetal ultrasound imaging and the production of authoritative knowledge in Greece

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-175

  Georges, Eugenia ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greece; Medical authority; Pregnancy; Technology; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTHORITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREECE; HUMAN; LABOR; NEWBORN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AUTHORITARIANISM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0030171257     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1996.10.2.02a00040     Document Type: Article

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