Technologized images, technologized bodies / / edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/61
• Soggetto topico: Medical anthropology; Medical technology - Social aspects; Human body - Social aspects
• Altri autori: EdwardsJeanette <1954-> HarveyPenelope <1956-> WadePeter <1957->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Technologized images, technologized bodies
• ISBN: 1-282-66242-2; 9786612662423; 1-84545-830-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825566103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II