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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781019703321

Titolo

Technologized images, technologized bodies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-66242-2

9786612662423

1-84545-830-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsJeanette <1954->

HarveyPenelope <1956->

WadePeter <1957->

Disciplina

306.461

Soggetti

Medical anthropology

Medical technology - Social aspects

Human body - Social aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Technologized Images,Technologized Bodies; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies; CHAPTER 2: Pharmaceutical Witnessing; CHAPTER 3: Picturing the Brain Inside, Revealing the Illness Outside; CHAPTER 4: Embodied Brains; CHAPTER 5: Spectacles of Reason; CHAPTER 6: Technokids?; CHAPTER 7: Wearable Augmentations:; CHAPTER 8: 'Embryos Are Our Baby'; CHAPTER 9: Living Differently in Time; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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