CT Suite The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting

Name: CT Suite The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting
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ISBN: 9780822341239

ISBN-10: 0822341239

ISBN-13: 9780822341239

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barry F. Saunders, Barry F. Saunders

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InCT Suitethe doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT Suite, the unit where CT images are made and interpreted within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital. Focusing on how expertise is performed and how CT images are made into diagnostic evidence, he concentrates not on the function of CT images for patients, but on the function of the images among professional colleagues going about their routines. Yet Saunders offers more than insider ethnography. He links diagnostic work…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Reading and Writing



Cutting



Diagnosing



Curating



Testifying and Teaching



Exposition


Impression


Notes


Clinical Terms and Jargon


Bibliography


Illustrations


Index