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Ultrasound as a technology of reassurance? How pregnant women and health care professionals articulate ultrasound reassurance and its limitations
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Thomas, Gareth M., Roberts, Julie and Griffiths, Frances (2017) Ultrasound as a technology of reassurance? How pregnant women and health care professionals articulate ultrasound reassurance and its limitations. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39 (6). pp. 893-907. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12554 ISSN 0141-9889.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12554
Abstract
The premise that ultrasound technologies provide reassurance for pregnant women is well‐rehearsed. However, there has been little research about how this reassurance is articulated and understood by both expectant mothers and health care professionals. In this article, we draw on two qualitative UK studies to explore the salience of ultrasound reassurance to women's pregnancy experiences whilst highlighting issues around articulation and silence. Specifically, we capture how expectant parents express a general need for reassurance and how visualisation and the conduct of professionals have a crucial role to play in accomplishing a sense of reassurance. We also explore how professionals have ambiguities about the relationship between ultrasound and reassurance, and how they subsequently articulate reassurance to expectant mothers. By bringing two studies together, we take a broad perspectival view of how gaps and silences within the discourse of ultrasound reassurance leave the claims made for ultrasound as a technology of reassurance unchallenged. Finally, we explore the implications this can have for women's experiences of pregnancy and health care professionals’ practices.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Fetus -- Ultrasonic imaging -- Psychological aspects, Pregnancy, Pregnant women | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology of Health & Illness | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0141-9889 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 39 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 893-907 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12554 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 April 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 April 2018 | ||||||||
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