The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine
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: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415174066
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateNotă biografică
Catherine Waldby is a Lecturer in the Communications and Cultural Studies Program at Murdoch University, Australia.
Cuprins
List of figures, Acknowledgments, List of acronyms, 1 The Visible Human Project: an initial history, 2 Posthuman spectacle, 3 Theatres of violence: the anatomical sacrifice and the anatomical trace, 4 Virtual surgery: morphing and morphology, 5 IatroGenesis: digital Eden and the reproduction of life, 6 Revenants: death and the digital uncanny, 7 Technogenesis: the posthuman visible, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Descriere
The Visible Human Project examines how the VHP provides visual access to every organ of the body, viewable from every angle and capable of being manipulated to simulate living processes like respiration.