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The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualization (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Body WithinThe central question of this interdisciplinary volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the historical and cultural construction and experience of bodily interiority.
Full description- Publisher: Brill
- Published: 31 August 2009
- Format: Hardback 227 pages
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- Categories: European History | Medieval History
- ISBN 13: 9789004176218 ISBN 10: 9004176217
- Sales rank: 789,394
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Full description for The Body Within
The central question of this volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the experience of bodily interiority. These visualisation techniques enable not only medical researchers and practitioners to look inside living bodies without literally opening them, but their inhabitants as well. This new experiential possibility may have profound implications for the ways in which the relations between a ~bodya (TM), a ~selfa (TM), and a ~worlda (TM) are configured, both on the level of cultural discourses and practices and on the level of individual experiences. The contributions to this volume investigate the body within as an historical, social and cultural construct, constituted in the interchange between technology, knowledge, representation and media. "Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History," vol. 3
