Technologized images, technologized bodies. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade.
• Other Names: Edwards, Jeanette, 1954-; Harvey, Penelope, 1956-; Wade, Peter, 1957-
• Contents: Technologized images, technologized bodies / Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey, and Peter Wade -- Pharmaceutical witnessing : drugs for life in an era of direct-to-consumer advertising / Joseph Dumit -- Picturing the brain inside, revealing the illness outside : a comparison of the different meanings attributed to brain scans by scientists and patients / Simon Cohn -- Embodied brains : why science studies needs the anthropology of museums / Anne Lorimer -- Spectacles of reason : an ethnography of Indian gastroenterologists / Stefan Ecks -- Technokids? : insulin pumps incorporated in young people's bodies and lives / Griet Scheldeman -- Wearable augmentations : imaginaries of the informed body / Ana Viseu and Lucy Suchman -- 'Embryos are our baby' : abridging hope, body and nation in transnational ova donation / Michal Nahman -- Living differently in time : plasticity, temporality and cellular biotechnologies / Hannah Landecker.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (262 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4/61; Medical anthropology; Medical technology -- Social aspects; Human body -- Social aspects; Anthropology; Human Body; Technology Assessment, Biomedical; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Human body -- Social aspects; Medical anthropology; Medical technology -- Social aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845458300; 1845458303
• Related ISBNs: 9781845456641; 1845456645
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.