Magnetic Appeal : MRI and the Myth of Transparency /

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging, not so long ago a diagnostic tool of last resort, has become pervasive in the landscape of consumer medicine; images of the forbidding tubes, with their promises of revelation, surround us in commercials and on billboards. This work offers an in-depth exploration of the s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joyce, Kelly A. (Kelly Ann), 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alltagskultur
Gesundheitsverhalten
Kernspintomografie
Magnetic resonance imaging.
MEDICAL > Diagnostic Imaging.
Imagerie par resonance magnetique > États-Unis.
Imagerie par resonance magnetique.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging > United States.
USA.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • MRI as cultural icon
  • Painting by numbers : the development of magnetic resonance imaging and the visual turn in medicine
  • Seeing is believing : the transformation of MRI examinations into authoritative knowledge
  • The image factory : work practices in MRI units
  • The political economy of magnetic resonance imaging
  • A sacred technology? : theorizing visual knowledge in the twenty-first century.

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