"Seeing the baby": Pleasures and dilemmas of ultrasound technologies for primiparous Australian women

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-47

  Harris, Gillian ^a   Connor, Linda ^a   Bisits, Andrew ^b   Higginbotham, Nick ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse; Embodiment; Feminist; Obstetric ultrasound; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PARITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PARITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 3042587310     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2004.18.1.23     Document Type: Review

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