ABSTRACT This article uses an apparent feminist approach to engage a two-part research question: First, does gender affect the frequency with which people become subjects of medical digital imaging? Second, how do the subjects of medical digital imaging become persuaded to accept this role? Engaging with medical imaging and the technical communication surrounding it as an assemblage of technical rhetorics (Frost & Eble) and thus a technology, this project shows that women are more commonly scanned as a result of social biases. Further, this article argues that the ubiquity of scanning of women’s bodies has implications for political agency and privacy and for technical communicators’ understandings of efficiency. This study is preliminary but presents compelling evidence that further research on the technical communication surrounding gender and medical imaging is necessary.

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超声、性别和同意：医学影像修辞的明显女性主义分析

摘要 本文使用明显的女权主义方法来解决一个由两部分组成的研究问题：首先，性别是否会影响人们成为医学数字成像对象的频率？其次，如何说服医学数字成像的主体接受这个角色？该项目将医学成像和围绕它的技术交流作为技术修辞 (Frost & Eble) 的组合并因此成为一项技术，表明由于社会偏见，女性更常被扫描。此外，本文认为，女性身体扫描的普遍性对政治能动性和隐私以及技术传播者对效率的理解都有影响。