Baby’s First Picture: The Cyborg Fetus of Ultrasound Imaging

Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 105-124

  Mitchell, Lisa M ^a   Georges, Eugenia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203948729-11     Document Type: Chapter

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