'Wakey wakey baby': Narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-314

  Roberts, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bonding scans; Fetal imaging; Pregnancy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COOPERATION; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OBJECT RELATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMERCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84857500764     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01345.x     Document Type: Article

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