ISBN:
0816622892
,
0816622906
,
9780816622900
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 199 p)
,
ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Screening the Body : Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture
DDC:
306.4/61
Schlagwort(e):
Diagnostic imaging History
;
Motion pictures in medicine History
;
Diagnostic imaging ; History
;
Motion pictures in medicine ; History
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-188) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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