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- Title
On a Trip to the Womb: Biotourist Metaphors in Fetal Ultrasound Imaging.
- Authors
Kroløkke, CharlotteH.
- Abstract
The case study for this analysis is the rhetorical construction of the three-dimensional fetal ultrasound session. A cross-cultural selection of marketing material from elective ultrasound clinics is discussed in light of earlier feminist scholarship detailing technocratic, holistic, and consumer culture models of pregnancy. In the analysis, the different models are explicated, and it reveals that the marketing of the 3D/4D ultrasound image invokes both of and new understandings of pregnancy.
- Subjects
MEDICAL tourism; FETAL ultrasonic imaging; MEDICAL equipment; PREGNANCY; MEDICAL imaging systems; MARKETING
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2010.507577