Ultrasound pioneer book launch

Published: 23 April 2013

“Imaging and Imagining the Fetus”, the development of obstetric ultrasound by Professor Ian Donald, will be launched next month in Glasgow.

“Imaging and Imagining the Fetus”, the development of obstetric ultrasound in the 1950s by Professor Ian Donald, will be launched next month in Glasgow. Cover of Imaging and Imagining the Fetus

Written by Malcolm Nicolson, Professor of the History of Medicine and John EE Fleming, and published in January this year by the Johns Hopkins University Press, the book tells the technical and social history of ultrasound imaging, from early experiments in Glasgow through wide deployment in the British hospital system by 1975 to its ubiquitous use in maternity clinics throughout the developed world by the end of the twentieth century.

The Glasgow launch takes place on Monday 13 May at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in the Library Reading Room from 5.30pm. The speakers will be Dr Nick Hopwood, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Professor Stuart Campbell, Create Health, London. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. If you are interested in attending, please contact:  marguerite.dupree@glasgow.ac.uk

First published: 23 April 2013

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