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Screening the body : tracing medicine's visual culture / Lisa Cartwright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cartwright, Lisa, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures in medicine--History.
- Motion pictures in medicine.
- Diagnostic imaging--History.
- Diagnostic imaging.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Science and the Cinema; 2. ""Experiments of Destruction"": Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology; 3. An Etiology of the Neurological Gaze; 4. A Microphysics of the Body: Microscopy and the Cinema; 5. Decomposing the Body: X Rays and the Cinema; 6. Women and the Public Culture of Radiography; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8525-8
- OCLC:
- 476093756
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