Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-664-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data – brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on particular kinds of technology or taken only a purely textual/visual (cultural studies) approach to images of the body. Combining approaches from three of the most dynamic and popular fields of contemporary social anthropology – the study of the visual, the study of the technological and the study of the human body – this volume draws these together and interrogates their intersection using insights from ethnographic approaches. Offering a fascinating and wide range of perspectives, the chapters in this volume bring an innovative focus that reflects the authors’ shared interest in ‘the body’ and visualising technologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Jeanette

Harvey, Penelope

Wade, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey, and Peter Wade

Chapter 2. Pharmaceutical Witnessing: Drugs for Life in an Era of Direct-to-consumer Advertising

Joseph Dumit

Chapter 3. Picturing the Brain Inside, Revealing the Illness Outside: A Comparison of the Different Meanings Attributed to Brain Scans by Scientists and Patients

Simon Cohn

Chapter 4. Embodied Brains: Why Science Studies Needs the Anthropology of Museums

Anne Lorimer

Chapter 5. Spectacles of Reason: An Ethnography of Indian Gastroenterologists

Stefan Ecks

Chapter 6. Technokids? Insulin Pumps Incorporated in Young People’s Bodies and Lives

Griet Scheldeman

Chapter 7. Wearable Augmentations: Imaginaries of the Informed Body

Ana Viseu and Lucy Suchman

Chapter 8. ‘Embryos Are Our Baby’: Abridging Hope, Body and Nation in Transnational Ova Donation

Michal Nahman

Chapter 9. Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality and Cellular Biotechnologies

Hannah Landecker

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards, Jeanette
Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is author of Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (2000); co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception (2nd edition, 1999); co-editor of European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology (2009); and coeditor, with Harvey and Wade, of Anthropology and Science (2007).

Wade, Peter
Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His publications include Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (1997); Music, Race and Nation (2000); Race, Nature and Culture (2002); and Race and Sex in Latin America (2009).

Harvey, Penelope
Penelope Harvey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester and co-Director of CRESC (ESRC Centre for Research on Socio- Cultural Change). She has done ethnographic research in Peru, Spain and the UK, and published on engineering practice, state formation, information technologies and the politics of communication.

Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is author of Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (2000); co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception (2nd edition, 1999); co-editor of European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology (2009); and coeditor, with Harvey and Wade, of Anthropology and Science (2007).