Giving bodies back to data : image makers, bricolage, and reinvention in magnetic resonance technology / Silvia Casini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casini, Silvia, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)

Leonardo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magnetic resonance imaging--History.

Magnetic resonance imaging.

Information visualization.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging--history.

Data Visualization.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging--history.

Data Visualization.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Giving Bodies Back to Data focuses on the entanglement between the history and practice of data visualization across disciplines and cultures, focusing on the invention of MRI"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Center-Periphery In Data Visualization: Concepts And Methods

I. Opening the Black Box

2. Histories And Practices In Mri Early Development

3. Inside The Laboratory: From Signal To Coils, From Images To Bodies

4. Visualizing Uncertainty In Mri Reinvention

Intermezzo Lives in the Grid

II. Art-Science Collaboration

5. Challenging The Neurorealism Fallacy Through The Arts

6. Archives And Laboratory Ethnography: Giving Bodies Back To Data

7. Bodily Sociotechnical Imaginaries In The Age Of Operational Images.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780262045292

026204529X

OCLC:

1176315336

Publisher Number:

99988112233