Magnetic appeal:MRI and the myth of transparency
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Cornell University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Ithaca |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cornell paperbacks |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 198 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780801444890 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801444896 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474569 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474566 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | R445 |
CLC: | R445.2 |
Call Number: | R445.2/J894 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-192) and index. 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. |