Imaging and imagining the fetus : the development of obstetric ultrasound / Malcolm Nicolson and John E.E. Fleming.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

xi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Diagnostic ultrasound before Thomas Brown -- Ian Donald before ultrasound : St. Thomas's Hospital and the Royal Air Force -- Ian Donald before ultrasound : Hammersmith and Glasgow -- A-scope investigations in Glasgow -- The first contact scanner -- The automatic scanner and the diasonograph -- "Behind the Iron Curtain" : ultrasound and the fetus -- Diffusion, controversy, and commodification -- Ian Donald after ultrasound : contraception and abortion -- Maternity and technology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.