Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture
Lisa Cartwright
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Description for Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJR; APF; JFC; MBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. But how and when did they come to be established and accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? How are the specialized techniques and codes of these imaging techniques determined, and whose bodies are studied, diagnosed, and treated with the help of optical recording devices?
Screening the Body traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to show that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound and ... Read moreProduct Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816622900
SKU
V9780816622900
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99-50
About Lisa Cartwright
Lisa Cartwright is an assistant professor of English and visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. With Paula A. Treichler, she is coeditor of Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science, a forthcoming anthology on gender and the visual and inscriptive culture of medicine and science.
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