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The Visible Human Project : informatic bodies and posthuman medicine / / atherine Waldby



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Autore: Waldby Cathy Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Visible Human Project : informatic bodies and posthuman medicine / / atherine Waldby Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
Disciplina: 611.00222
Soggetto topico: Human anatomy
Medical informatics
Human body (Philosophy)
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: The 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.In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances
Titolo autorizzato: The Visible Human Project  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-203-37739-7
1-134-68800-8
1-280-07368-3
9786610073689
0-203-36063-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450592103321
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Serie: Biofutures, biocultures.