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SUMMARY:The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound\, medical innovation
  and the clinico-anatomical project - Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glas
 gow)
DTSTART:20140116T163000Z
DTEND:20140116T180000Z
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CONTACT:Nick Hopwood
DESCRIPTION:Ultrasonic images of the fetus are now ubiquitous. Like many i
 nnovations in medical imaging\, the origins of obstetric ultrasound are of
 ten located in medical physics and engineering rather than to clinical med
 icine. I will argue\, by contrast\, for the crucial role of clinical patho
 logy in the invention of diagnostic ultrasound. Several authors\, notably 
 Foucault in _The Birth of the Clinic_\, have described the impact on ninet
 eenth-century medicine of systematic correlation between lesions revealed 
 upon dissection and signs and symptoms observed while the patient was stil
 l alive. Laboratory medicine is widely presented as having eclipsed the cl
 inico-anatomical project in the twentieth century. This lecture will show 
 that clinical pathology continued to inspire innovation in medical imaging
  after 1950. It will also argue that ultrasonic scanning is more like trad
 itional forms of physical examination than is usually assumed.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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