Jose van Dijck

The Transparent Body

A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging

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Produktbeschreibung

Jose van Dijck is professor of media and culture and chair of the Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Imagenation: Popular Images of Genetics and Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 179mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780295984902
• ISBN-10: 0295984902
• Artikelnr.: 22426524

Autorenporträt

Jose van Dijck is professor of media and culture and chair of the Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Imagenation: Popular Images of Genetics and Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Mediated Bodies and the Ideal of Transparency
2. The Operation Film as a Mediated Freak Show
3. Bodyworlds: The Art of Pastinated Cadavers
4. Fantastic Voyages in the Age of Endoscopy
5. X-ray Vision in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
6. Ultrasound and the Visible Fetus
7. Digital Cadavers and Virtual Dissection
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index