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Cartwright Lisa <1959-> |
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Screening the body [[electronic resource] ] : tracing medicine's visual culture / / Lisa Cartwright |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures in medicine - History |
Diagnostic imaging - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-188) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Science and the Cinema; 2. ""Experiments of Destruction"": Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology; 3. An Etiology of the Neurological Gaze; 4. A Microphysics of the Body: Microscopy and the Cinema; 5. Decomposing the Body: X Rays and the Cinema; 6. Women and the Public Culture of Radiography; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound. |
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