The Visible Human Project
Autor Catherine Waldbyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iun 2000
In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances in medical technologies have changed the way we view and study the human body, and places the VHP within the history of technologies such as the X-ray and CT-scan, which allow us to view the human interior.
Bringing together medical conceptions of the human body with theories of visual culture from Foucault to Donna Haraway, Waldby links the VHP to a range of other biomedical projects, such as the Human Genome Project and cloning, which approach living bodies as data sources. She argues that the VHP is an example of the increasingly blurred distinction between `living' and 'dead' human bodies, as the bodies it uses are digitally preserved as a resource for living bodies, and considers how computer-based biotechnologies affect both medical and non-medical meanings of the body's life and death, its location and its limits.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415174060
ISBN-10: 0415174066
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 155 x 232 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10: 0415174066
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 155 x 232 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Notă biografică
Catherine Waldby is a Lecturer in the Communications and Cultural Studies Program at Murdoch University, Australia.