The Gaze of the X-Ray : : An Archive of Violence / / ed. by Shahram Khosravi.

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As a progression in medical science, X-ray techno...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Complete eBook Package 2024
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Corporeal Matters ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (194 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Wayward X-ray Photos
  • The Racialized X-ray Code
  • Moving Shades: X-ray Mobility in Southeast Asian Labour Migration
  • Suspicious Bodies
  • The Ancestral Document
  • The Bloodiest Border. A Photo Essay
  • In the Dermis of the Body
  • A Scarf, a Sewage Pipe and a Settler: On Tactics, X-ray, and the Right to Opacity
  • Silent Agony
  • A Ray in Five Folds
  • Deep Visions and Superficial Desires: X-rays as Science and Popular Culture
  • Bothering the X-ray
  • Listening to X-ray Images. A Family Album
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Imprint