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This title in other formats:The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicineby Catherine Waldby
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Visible Human Project is a critical investigation of the spectacular, three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies — dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files — made by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. Catherine Waldby uses new ideas from cultural studies, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the meanings such an object has within a computerized culture.<P>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. Synopsis:An investigation of the three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies - dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files - by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. The author uses ideas from cultural studies and science studies to contextualize the visible human project. Synopsis:"The Visible Human Project" is a critical investigation of the spectacular, three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies- dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files- made by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. Catherine Waldby uses new ideas from cultural studies, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the meanings such an object has within a computerized culture. 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 biomedicalprojects, 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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