Medical Imaging and Philosophy
Challenges, reflections and actions
- 194 pages
- English
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Medical Imaging and Philosophy
Challenges, reflections and actions
About this book
Medical Imaging plays a prominent role in contemporary medical research and practice. At the same time imaging in its broadest sense, including illustration, diagramming, model-making, photography and other forms of image rendering, has a long tradition in medicine. Imaging has served different purposes ranging from depicting to backing concepts or creating convincing evidence. Thus, imaging the human body has different aspects not only related to techniques or current interpretations of visual representations through medical imaging technologies. The way the human body was and is displayed in medicine also reflects a range of cultural, historical, artistic and scientific concerns.
Therefore, the editors of this e-book organized an international interdisciplinary conference in 2010 to bring together perspectives on Medical Imaging from medicine, philosophy, history and arts. This e-book summarizes the results of this interdisciplinary conference including representative examples of what was presented and discussed. It offers stimulating papers addressing readers interested in the status of medical images and their interpretation by different disciplines.
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Table of contents
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Foreword: Medical imaging: challenges, reflections and actions
- I. Medical p erspectives – use and reflection
- Medical image: imaging or imagining?
- Philosophical aspects of medical imaging from a radiologist’s perspective
- II. Imaging: Ontology and truth in representation
- Medical imaging: Pictures, “as if” and the power of evidence
- Radiology, philosophy, and ontology
- Scientific images from functional brain imaging in contemporary neuroscience – complex and problematic processing procedures
- The inheritance, power and predicaments of the ‘brain-reading’ metaphor
- Neuroimagi(ni)ng in past and present – representation, epistemology and circulatory references
- III. Imaging the body – practices and media
- Iconography and wax models in italian early smallpox vaccination
- Medical Imaging and contemporary art: Redefinition of the human body
- Image – Body – Knowledge: an interdisciplinary and critical appraisal of images
- ‘Sehkollektiv’: Sight styles in diagnostic computed tomography
- IV. Ethical considerations
- Looking behind the image: Philosophical and ethical issues in medical imaging