Screening the Body Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture

Name: Screening the Body Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture
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ISBN: 9780816622900

ISBN-10: 0816622906

ISBN-13: 9780816622900

Edition: 1995

Authors: Lisa Cartwright

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Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such issues come to be established and accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? How are the specialized techniques and codes of these imaging techniques determined, and whose bodies are studied, diagnosed and treated with the help of optical recording devices? "Screening the Body" traces the unusual history of scientific film during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, presenting material that is at once disturbing and engrossing. Lisa Cartwright looks at films like "The Elephant Electrocution". She brings to light eccentric…

Book details

List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/9/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Science and the Cinema



"Experiments of Destruction": Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology



An Etiology of the Neurological Gaze



A Microphysics of the Body: Microscopy and the Cinema



Decomposing the Body: X Rays and the Cinema



Women and the Public Culture of Radiography


Notes


Index