Ct Suite - The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting

Informationen zum Autor Barry F. Saunders Klappentext An ethnography of a hospital's CT (Computed Technography) department that examines how medical imaging alters our ideas about the human body. Zusammenfassung Presents an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology! the computed tomographic (CT) scanner! shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT Suite! the unit where CT images are made and interpreted within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Reading and Writing 13 2. Cutting 93 3. Diagnosing 130 4. Curating 159 5. Testifying and Teaching 199 6. Exposition 275 Impression 300 Notes 307 Clinical Terms and Jargon 345 Bibliography 349 Illustrations 375 Index 379

Product details

• Authors: Barry F Saunders, Barry F. Saunders
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2008
• EAN: 9780822341048
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4104-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries