Transparent Body - A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging

Jose van Dijck is professor of media and culture and chair of the Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Imagenation: Popular Images of Genetics and Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Mediated Bodies and the Ideal of Transparency

2. The Operation Film as a Mediated Freak Show

3. Bodyworlds: The Art of Pastinated Cadavers

4. Fantastic Voyages in the Age of Endoscopy

5. X-ray Vision in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

6. Ultrasound and the Visible Fetus

7. Digital Cadavers and Virtual Dissection

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Jose van Dijck is professor of media and culture and chair of the Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Imagenation: Popular Images of Genetics and Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Jose van Dijck, Jose van Dijck, Jose van Van Dijck
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2015
• EAN: 9780295997735
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99773-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: In Vivo; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediatio; In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Bi
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine