Author: Bettyann Kevles
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523583
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen's original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reasonance imaging (MRI) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MRI-assisted surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine - from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology. Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.
Naked to the Bone
Author: Bettyann Kevles
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523583
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen's original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reasonance imaging (MRI) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MRI-assisted surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine - from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology. Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523583
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen's original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reasonance imaging (MRI) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MRI-assisted surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine - from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology. Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.
a naked bone
Author: Mangaliso Buzani
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 099471047X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In simple vocabulary a naked bone describes complex states of beauty and suffering, often at the borderline where life meets death. In their dreamlike rhythms and images, the poems draw strength from Xhosa culture, Christianity, and elements of nature. They are love poems in the widest sense, embracing the interface between daily life and the spiritual, enacting joy and caring in the face of deprivation and mourning.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 099471047X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In simple vocabulary a naked bone describes complex states of beauty and suffering, often at the borderline where life meets death. In their dreamlike rhythms and images, the poems draw strength from Xhosa culture, Christianity, and elements of nature. They are love poems in the widest sense, embracing the interface between daily life and the spiritual, enacting joy and caring in the face of deprivation and mourning.
Wappo Texts, 1st Series
Author: Paul Radin
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Caged in Bone
Author: SM Reine
Publisher: SM Reine
ISBN: 1494704765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Abel Wilder, werewolf Alpha, has gone missing, leaving his mate and the pack in a panic. His captor magicked his scent out of the sanctuary so that his mate can’t track him down. Only one witch can cast a spell that powerful. James Faulkner has finally crossed a line that Elise Kavanagh can’t ignore. Elise is going to have to hunt James down before the werewolf pack loses its Alpha and Rylie loses her mate. And Elise will have to find a way to make sure that James never bothers the pack—or anyone else—ever again.
Publisher: SM Reine
ISBN: 1494704765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Abel Wilder, werewolf Alpha, has gone missing, leaving his mate and the pack in a panic. His captor magicked his scent out of the sanctuary so that his mate can’t track him down. Only one witch can cast a spell that powerful. James Faulkner has finally crossed a line that Elise Kavanagh can’t ignore. Elise is going to have to hunt James down before the werewolf pack loses its Alpha and Rylie loses her mate. And Elise will have to find a way to make sure that James never bothers the pack—or anyone else—ever again.
Journal of Anatomy and Physiology
Author:
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Journal of Anatomy
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Annals & Magazine of Natural History
Author:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
General anatomy, applied to physiology and the practice of medicine, tr. by C. Coffyn, revised and corrected by G. Calvert
Author: Marie François Xavier Bichat
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Medialities
Author: Ute Fendler
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839474191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Cultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain data or materials. This is why the concept of mediality can be used to stress the performative character of all culture, whose multiplicity of techniques conversely interacts with the mediality in question. The contributors focus on a given cultural medium's genuine structure as a particular deployment without falling into some kind of hardware determinism, therefore considering culture beyond textuality.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839474191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Cultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain data or materials. This is why the concept of mediality can be used to stress the performative character of all culture, whose multiplicity of techniques conversely interacts with the mediality in question. The contributors focus on a given cultural medium's genuine structure as a particular deployment without falling into some kind of hardware determinism, therefore considering culture beyond textuality.