Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
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Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

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  2. English
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Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

About this book

The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data – brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on particular kinds of technology or taken only a purely textual/visual (cultural studies) approach to images of the body. Combining approaches from three of the most dynamic and popular fields of contemporary social anthropology – the study of the visual, the study of the technological and the study of the human body – this volume draws these together and interrogates their intersection using insights from ethnographic approaches. Offering a fascinating and wide range of perspectives, the chapters in this volume bring an innovative focus that reflects the authors' shared interest in 'the body' and visualising technologies.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2010
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781845458300
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Technologized Images,Technologized Bodies
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures and Tables
  5. Preface and Acknowledgements
  6. CHAPTER 1: Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
  7. CHAPTER 2: Pharmaceutical Witnessing
  8. CHAPTER 3: Picturing the Brain Inside, Revealing the Illness Outside
  9. CHAPTER 4: Embodied Brains
  10. CHAPTER 5: Spectacles of Reason
  11. CHAPTER 6: Technokids?
  12. CHAPTER 7: Wearable Augmentations:
  13. CHAPTER 8: ‘Embryos Are Our Baby’
  14. CHAPTER 9: Living Differently in Time
  15. Notes on Contributors
  16. Index

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