Magnetic appeal
Subtitle: MRI and the myth of transparency
By: Kelly A. Joyce.
Series: Cornell paperbacks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780801444890; 9780801474569
Subjects: Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: MRI as cultural icon; title: Painting by numbers : the development of magnetic resonance imaging and the visual turn in medicine; title: Seeing is believing : the transformation of MRI examinations into authoritative knowledge; title: The image factory : work practices in MRI units; title: The political economy of magnetic resonance imaging; title: A sacred technology? : theorizing visual knowledge in the twenty-first century.