Technologized images, technologized bodies

Edwards, Jeanette, 1954- (Added Author). Harvey, Penelope, 1956- (Added Author). Wade, Peter, 1957- (Added Author).

Summary: The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on particular kinds.

Record details

ISBN: 6612662425
ISBN: 9786612662423
ISBN: 9781282662421
ISBN: 1282662422
ISBN: 1845456645
ISBN: 9781845456641
ISBN: 1845458303
ISBN: 9781845458300
Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Technologized images, technologized bodies / Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey, and Peter Wade -- Pharmaceutical witnessing : drugs for life in an era of direct-to-consumer advertising / Joseph Dumit -- Picturing the brain inside, revealing the illness outside : a comparison of the different meanings attributed to brain scans by scientists and patients / Simon Cohn -- Embodied brains : why science studies needs the anthropology of museums / Anne Lorimer -- Spectacles of reason : an ethnography of Indian gastroenterologists / Stefan Ecks -- Technokids? : insulin pumps incorporated in young people's bodies and lives / Griet Scheldeman -- Wearable augmentations : imaginaries of the informed body / Ana Viseu and Lucy Suchman -- 'Embryos are our baby' : abridging hope, body and nation in transnational ova donation / Michal Nahman -- Living differently in time : plasticity, temporality and cellular biotechnologies / Hannah Landecker.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.