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...Estelle S. Fletcher Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 A Review of “Imaging Techniques in Reproductive Medicine” Estelle S. Fletcher A recent symposium in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine reflects the diversity of medical imaging techniques now available...

.... Whether the relationships are straight, gay, or bisexual; maternal, paternal, or filial; motivated, situational, or opportunistic; whether the worlds they inhabit are those of art photography, popular music, or medicine; whether their compulsions are addictive, obsessive, or narcissistic; the common story...

.... The first enables us to address a broader range of technologies than the term medical imaging suggests and to emphasize medicine’s continuum with other cultural domains. The essays in this issue do not simply consider technologies of imaging; in a sense, they “image” the broad cultural technologies...

..., and the unresponsiveness of modern medicine in general and the obstetrician-gynecologist in particular. In Self-Health, produced by the San Francisco Women’s Health Center, each of six women in a self-help group learns how to do breast examination, look at her cervix and palpate the uterus and ovaries...

..., the resurgence of tuberculosis, and the breakdown of the global ecosystem-have provoked a new wave of activism toward institutionalized science and medicine. We cannot understand or confront these crises without also understanding and confronting the technologies with which Western science...

... the Laboratory’s 5L in- teractive media authoring environment, the software “engine” for the MS-DOS version of the Shared Decision-making Programs. Estelle S. Fletcher received her M.D. from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign and has completed the requirements...

... The battery of new optical treatments under development in medicine is part of a visual culture that extends beyond the field of medicine.’ How is the course of medical imaging research determined, and who benefits from new visual technologies? A recent controversy over federal funding of breast...

... in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as part of its Medical Scholars Program. She is completing her dissertation on French and American medical discourse on AIDS. Her research also appears in the Western Journal of Medicine’s special issue on cross-cultural medicine...

...” medicine proposed by these films unfortunately replicates several of the most serious con- ceptual errors of nineteenth-century medicine. Although these films provide important and useful information for women about certain lunds of health care, the writers question...

... the physiology of the body, combining an aesthetic dimension for wide appeal and a medical discourse' for validation. Despite its claim to scientific objectivity, its biases are evident: medicine can help restore the nuclear family. The result is an extremely conservative documentary whose power and danger...

... production by global health surveil- lance organizations is linked to both the history of medicine and the history of early cinema; indeed, recent scholarship has located the interconnections between these fields within a broader sur- veillant impulse in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century...

... medicine and reproductive technology, and her essays have appeared in the journals Genders, English Literary History, Women's Studies , and Literature and Medicine . Jan de Bont directs Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in Twister (1996). A Blustery Day for a Baby: Technologies of Family Formation...

... Filmmakers Association. He also works as a freelance photographer, and has written for Screen. Stephen Grosz is a medical student at the University of Birmingham, England. Bruce McAuley is a physician practicing in San Francisco. They are collaborating on a series of articles about medicine...

... and medicine. In this respect, the piece is clearly reminiscent of The Silent Scream, a 1984 National Right-to-Life production that claimed to show a real-time ultrasound abortion from the point of view of a 12-week-old fetus. Indeed, like The Silent Scream, S’Aline’s Solution appears to present...

... issue of Zone, entitled “Fragments for a History of the Human Body,” published in 1989; Sander L. Gilman, Sexuality: An lllustrated History: Representing the Sexual in Medicine and Culture from the Middle Ages to the Age of AIDS (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989); Thomas Laquer...

.... No. 28; pp. 101-133. Fletcher, Estelle S. A Review of “Imaging Techniques in Reproductive Medicine.” No. 29; pp. 241-243. Flood, Ann Barry Empowering Patients: Using Interactive Video Programs to Help Patients Make Difficult Decisions. No. 29; pp. 225-231. Harper, Phillip...

..., Jennifer. An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Tryster, Hillel. Israel before Israel: Silent Cinema in the Holy Land. Jerusalem: Steven Spielberg...

... discourses of biotechnology and medicine as belonging to an order of culture rather than of nature, gender remains a naturalized point of human identity. As Judy Wajcman reminds us: “technology is more than a set of physical objects or artefacts. It also fundamentally...

... to establish such links. In the 1980s, in academic publications such as The American Journal of Psychiatry and The Western Journal of Medicine, scientists argued for the relationship between endometriosis and “bipolar mood disorder,” “affective disorder,” and other mental...

... by Philippe Aries, Georges Duby, and Paul Veyne. Stanley Gray is a professor of modern French literature at the University of 11- linois. Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York. He...