Wild Science 
Subtitle: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media (Writing Corporealities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415204309
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Impact of science & technology on society; Media Studies; Feminism; Sociology Of Medicine; Medical; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Reference; Art / Popular Culture; General; Feminist theory; Health in mass media; Medical innovations; Social aspects
First sentence: CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES such as microscopes, X-ray machines, endoscopes, and most recently positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have made it possible for medical scientists to peer into the body without cutting through the skin.