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Technologized images, technologized bodies /
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 possibilit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Living differently in time : plasticity, temporality and cellular biotechnologies / Hannah Landecker.