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Jose van Dijck, Jose van Dijck, Jose van Van Dijck

Transparent Body - A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Traces the cultural context and wider social impact of such medical imaging practices as X ray and endoscopy! ultrasound imaging of fetuses! the filming and broadcasting of surgical operations! the creation of plastinated corpses for display as art objects! and the use of digitized cadavers in anatomical study. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

Authors	Jose van Dijck, Jose van Dijck, Jose van Van Dijck
Publisher	University Of Washington Press

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.04.2005

EAN	9780295984902
ISBN	978-0-295-98490-2
No. of pages	208
Dimensions	180 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
Series	In Vivo In Vivo: The Cultural Mediatio 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

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