Technologized images, technologized bodies
By: [edited by] Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade.
Contributors: Edwards, Jeanette, 1954-; Harvey, Penelope, 1956-; Wade, Peter, 1957-
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845456641
Subjects: Medical anthropology; Medical technology -- Social aspects; Human body -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Technologized images, technologized bodies / Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey, and Peter Wade; title: Pharmaceutical witnessing : drugs for life in an era of direct-to-consumer advertising / Joseph Dumit; title: Picturing the brain inside, revealing the illness outside : a comparison of the different meanings attributed to brain scans by scientists and patients / Simon Cohn; title: Embodied brains : why science studies needs the anthropology of museums / Anne Lorimer; title: Spectacles of reason : an ethnography of Indian gastroenterologists / Stefan Ecks; title: Technokids? : insulin pumps incorporated in young people's bodies and lives / Griet Scheldeman; title: Wearable augmentations : imaginaries of the informed body / Ana Viseu and Lucy Suchman; title: 'Embryos are our baby' : abridging hope, body and nation in transnational ova donation / Michal Nahman; title: Living differently in time : plasticity, temporality and cellular biotechnologies / Hannah Landecker.