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Author Grant, Jenna, author.

Title Fixing the image : ultrasound and the visuality of care in Phnom Penh / Jenna Grant
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Flickering histories -- Mother and child -- Over-care and under-care -- Ultrasound Is an eye for seeing -- Portrait and scan
Summary "Introduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval, ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information and better prenatal and general health care. In Fixing the Image Jenna Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of "fixing"-which invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one is addicted-to illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with practices of care and neglect across different domains. Fixing the Image thus provides a method for studying technological practice in terms of specific materialities and capacities of technologies-in this case, image production and the permeability of the body-illuminating how images are a material form of engagement between patients, between patients and their doctors, and between patients and their bodies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2022)
Subject Medical anthropology -- Cambodia -- Phnom Penh
Ultrasonic imaging -- Social aspects -- Cambodia -- Phnom Penh
Medical personnel and patient -- Social aspects -- Cambodia -- Phnom Penh
Medical technology -- Cambodia -- Phnom Penh -- Philosophy
Medical anthropology
Cambodia -- Phnom Penh
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021058926
ISBN 9780295750620
0295750626