Visible Human Project - Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Waldby is a Lecturer in the Communications and Cultural Studies Program at Murdoch University, Australia. Klappentext "The Visible Human Project is a critical investigation of the spectacular, three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies- dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files- made by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. Catherine Waldby uses new ideas from cultural studies, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the meanings such an object has within a computerized culture. Bringing together medical conceptions of the human body with theories of visual culture from Foucault to Donna Haraway, Waldby links the VHP to a range of other biomedicalprojects, such as the Human Genome Project and cloning, which approach living bodies as data sources. She argues that the VHP is an example of the increasingly blurred distinction between living' and 'dead' human bodies, as the bodies it uses are digitally preserved as a resource for living bodies, and considers how computer-based biotechnologies affect both medical and non-medical meanings of the body's life and death, its location and its limits. Zusammenfassung The Visible Human Project examines how the VHP provides visual access to every organ of the body, viewable from every angle and capable of being manipulated to simulate living processes like respiration. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, Acknowledgments, List of acronyms, 1 The Visible Human Project: an initial history, 2 Posthuman spectacle, 3 Theatres of violence: the anatomical sacrifice and the anatomical trace, 4 Virtual surgery: morphing and morphology, 5 IatroGenesis: digital Eden and the reproduction of life, 6 Revenants: death and the digital uncanny, 7 Technogenesis: the posthuman visible, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Waldby, Catherine (Brunel University Waldby, Cathy Waldby
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2000
• EAN: 9780415174053
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17405-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Biofutures, Biocultures; Biofutures, Biocultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Cultural Studies, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, Soziologie und Anthropologie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, 3D-Grafik und Modellierung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MEDICAL / Physiology, Humanities, Sociology and anthropology, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools, 3D graphics and modelling