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The transparent body : a cultural analysis of medical imaging

Title
The transparent body : a cultural analysis of medical imaging / José van Dijck.
Author
Dijck, José van.
Publication
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.

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Description
xii, 193 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
In vivo
Uniform Title
In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Subject
  • Diagnostic imaging > Social aspects
  • Diagnostic imaging > History
  • Medicine and the humanities
  • Diagnostic Imaging > history
  • Human Body
  • Mass Media > trends
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.
Contents
Mediated bodies and the ideal of transparency -- The operation film as a mediated freak show -- Bodyworlds: the art of plastinated cadavers -- Fantastic voyages in the age of endoscopy -- X-ray vision in Thomas Mann's The magic mountain -- Ultrasound and the visible fetus -- Digital cadavers and virtual dissection.
Call Number
JFE 05-4412
ISBN
0295984902 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004023548
OCLC
56672536
Author
Dijck, José van.
Title
The transparent body : a cultural analysis of medical imaging / José van Dijck.
Imprint
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.
Series
In vivo
In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.
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JFE 05-4412
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