Join us for a conversation with Jenna Grant, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, on her new book "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh."

In "Fixing the Image," Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of "fixing"—which invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one is addicted—to illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with practices of care and neglect across different domains. 

About the speaker
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, visual anthropology, and Southeast Asia Studies. Her research focuses on medical imaging and visual practices of health care in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as a site of experimental global health sciences, and experiments in collective care in Cambodia and the U.S.