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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458752603321

Autore

Dijck José van

Titolo

The transparent body [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural analysis of medical imaging / / by José van Dijck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2005

ISBN

0-295-99035-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

In vivo

Disciplina

616.07/54

Soggetti

Diagnostic imaging - Social aspects

Diagnostic imaging - History

Medicine and the humanities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mediated bodies and the ideal of transparency -- The operation film as a mediated freak show -- Bodyworlds: the art of plastinated cadavers -- Fantastic voyages in the age of endoscopy -- X-ray vision in Thomas Mann's Magic mountain -- Ultrasound and the visible fetus -- Digital cadavers and virtual dissection.