Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh Grant Jenna
Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh Grant Jenna Traces affective and aesthetic dimensions of medical imaging technologiesIntroduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the…
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Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh Grant Jenna
Traces affective and aesthetic dimensions of medical imaging technologiesIntroduced 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. 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. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information and better prenatal and general health care.
Grant offers the concept of "fixing"--which invokes repair, 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.
Point of Care Ultrasound