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Magnetic appeal : MRI and the myth of transparency / Kelly A. Joyce.

By: Series: Cornell paperbacksPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2008.Description: viii, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801444890 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801444896 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780801474569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801474566 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.07/548 22
LOC classification:
  • RC78.7.N83 J69 2008
Contents:
MRI as cultural icon -- Painting by numbers : the development of magnetic resonance imaging and the visual turn in medicine -- Seeing is believing : the transformation of MRI examinations into authoritative knowledge -- The image factory : work practices in MRI units -- The political economy of magnetic resonance imaging -- A sacred technology? : theorizing visual knowledge in the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-192) and index.

MRI as cultural icon -- Painting by numbers : the development of magnetic resonance imaging and the visual turn in medicine -- Seeing is believing : the transformation of MRI examinations into authoritative knowledge -- The image factory : work practices in MRI units -- The political economy of magnetic resonance imaging -- A sacred technology? : theorizing visual knowledge in the twenty-first century.

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