Joyce, Kelly A. 1966-

Magnetic appeal : MRI and the myth of transparency / Kelly A. Joyce. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2008. - viii, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Cornell paperbacks. .

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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Magnetic resonance imaging.
Magnetic resonance imaging--United States.

RC78.7.N83 / J69 2008

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