Screening the Body : Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture.
Title:
Screening the Body : Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture.
Author:
Cartwright, Lisa.
ISBN:
9780816685257
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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