Screening the body : tracing medicine's visual culture / / Lisa Cartwright
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| Autore: |
Cartwright Lisa <1959->
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| Titolo: |
Screening the body : tracing medicine's visual culture / / Lisa Cartwright
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/61 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures in medicine - History |
| Diagnostic imaging - History | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Screening the body |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8525-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808162803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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