Magnetic Appeal : : MRI and the Myth of Transparency / / Kelly Joyce.
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. Magnetic Appeal offers an in-depth exploration of...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 7 halftones, 1 table, 4 charts/graphs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. MRI as Cultural Icon
- 2. Painting by Numbers The Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Visual Turn in Medicine
- 3. Seeing Is Believing: The Transformation of MRI Examinations into Authoritative Knowledge
- 4. The Image Factory: Work Practices in MRI Units
- 5. The Political Economy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 6. A Sacred Technology? Theorizing Visual Knowledge in the Twenty-first Century
- Appendix. Research Methodology
- References
- Index