ISBN:
0816622892
,
0816622906
,
9780816622900
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 199 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Screening the Body : Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Diagnostic imaging History
;
Motion pictures in medicine History
;
Diagnostic imaging ; History
;
Motion pictures in medicine ; History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-188) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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