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Screening the body : tracing medicine's visual culture /

Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cartwright, Lisa, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1995.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Science and the Cinema; 2. "Experiments of Destruction": Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology; 3. An Etiology of the Neurological Gaze; 4. A Microphysics of the Body: Microscopy and the Cinema; 5. Decomposing the Body: X Rays and the Cinema; 6. Women and the Public Culture of Radiography; Notes; Index.