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Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, <i>Haunting Images</i> offers a frank and compassionate account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. At the center of the book are case studies of thirty pregnant women whose fetuses were labeled "abnormal" after an ultrasound examination. By following these women and their relatives through painful processes of reproductive decision making, Tine M. Gammeltoft offers intimate ethnographic insights into everyday life in contemporary Vietnam and a sophisticated theoretical exploration of how subjectivities are forged in the face of moral assessments and demands.<br><br>Across the globe, ultrasonography and other technologies for prenatal screening offer prospective parents new information and present them with agonizing decisions never faced in the past. For anthropologists, this diagnostic capability raises important questions about individuality and collectivity, responsibility and choice. Arguing for more sustained anthropological attention to human quests for belonging, <i>Haunting Images </i>addresses existential questions of love and loss that concern us all.

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Author

Tine Mette Gammeltoft

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520278424

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social Science

Rating

5 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14