The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine

Name: The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine
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ISBN: 9781134687992

ISBN-10: 1134687990

ISBN-13: 9781134687992

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Authors: Catherine Waldby

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The Visible Human Project is a critical investigation of the spectacular, three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies - dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files - made by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. Catherine Waldby uses new ideas from cultural studies, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the meanings such an object has within a computerised culture.In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances in medical technologies have changed the way we view and study the human body, and places the VHP within the…

Book details

Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 208