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

Informationen zum Autor Barry F. Saunders Klappentext ""CT Suite" is a fascinating interpretation of the processes of medical imaging--from scanning to learning to filing to diagnosing. Barry F. Saunders's ethnographic material is excellent. He captures the constant negotiation over the stories that scans tell, and he locates these stories in a history of medical detective work stretching back to Poe."--Joseph Dumit, author of "Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity" 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 Saunders, Barry F Saunders, Barry F. Saunders
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2008
• EAN: 9780822341239
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4123-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology