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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784381003321

Autore

Cartwright Lisa <1959->

Titolo

Screening the body [[electronic resource] ] : tracing medicine's visual culture / / Lisa Cartwright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8525-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/61

Soggetti

Motion pictures in medicine - History

Diagnostic imaging - History

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. 171-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.