03029nam 2200721Ia 450 991082372210332120200520144314.01-134-68799-00-203-37739-71-134-68800-81-280-07368-397866100736890-203-36063-X10.4324/9780203360637(CKB)1000000000255508(EBL)180144(OCoLC)70747463(SSID)ssj0000285305(PQKBManifestationID)11235278(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285305(PQKBWorkID)10278965(PQKB)11608980(MiAaPQ)EBC180144(Au-PeEL)EBL180144(CaPaEBR)ebr10097476(CaONFJC)MIL7368(OCoLC)1000427588(EXLCZ)99100000000025550820000718d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe visible human project informatic bodies and posthuman medicine /Catherine Waldby1st ed.London Routledge20001 online resource (xii, 184 pages) illustrationsBiofutures, bioculturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-17406-6 0-415-17405-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of acronyms; The Visible Human Project: an initial history; Posthuman spectacle; Theatres of violence: the anatomical sacrifice and the anatomical trace; Virtual surgery: morphing and morphology; IatroGenesis: digital Eden and the reproduction of life; Revenants: death and the digital uncanny; Technogenesis: the posthuman visible; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe Visible Human Project is a critical investigation of the spectacular, three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies - dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files - made by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. Catherine Waldby uses new ideas from cultural studies, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the meanings such an object has within a computerised culture.Biofutures, biocultures.Human anatomyDatabasesHuman anatomyAtlasesMedical informaticsHuman body (Philosophy)Human anatomyHuman anatomyMedical informatics.Human body (Philosophy)611.00222Waldby Cathy516876MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823722103321The Visible Human Project4015247UNINA