Fangerau / Chhem / Müller Medical Imaging and Philosophy

Challenges, reflections and actions
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-515-10551-4
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Deutsch, Band 3, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Kulturanamnesen.

Medical Imaging plays a prominent role in contemporary medical research and practice. At the same time imaging in its broadest sense, including illustration, diagramming, model-making, photography and other forms of image rendering, has a long tradition in medicine. Imaging has served different purposes ranging from depicting to backing concepts or creating convincing evidence. Thus, imaging the human body has different aspects not only related to techniques or current interpretations of visual representations through medical imaging technologies. The way the human body was and is displayed in medicine also reflects a range of cultural, historical, artistic and scientific concerns.
Therefore, the editors of this e-book organized an international interdisciplinary conference in 2010 to bring together perspectives on Medical Imaging from medicine, philosophy, history and arts. This e-book summarizes the results of this interdisciplinary conference including representative examples of what was presented and discussed. It offers stimulating papers addressing readers interested in the status of medical images and their interpretation by different disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fangerau, Heiner

Chhem, Rethy K

Müller, Irmgard

Wang, Shih-chang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Inhaltsverzeichnis;6
2;Foreword: Medical imaging: challenges, reflections and actions;8
3;I. Medical perspectives – use and reflection;10
4;Medical image: imaging or imagining?;12
5;Philosophical aspects of medical imaging from a radiologist’s perspective;20
6;II. Imaging: Ontology and truth in representation;44
7;Medical imaging: Pictures, “as if” and the power of evidence;46
8;Radiology, philosophy, and ontology;62
9;Scientific images from functional brain imaging in contemporaryneuroscience – complex and problematic processing procedures;76
10;The inheritance, power and predicaments of the ‘brain-reading’ metaphor;84
11;Neuroimagi(ni)ng in past and present – representation, epistemology and circulatory references;104
12;III. Imaging the body – practices and media;120
13;Iconography and wax models in italian early smallpox vaccination;122
14;Medical Imaging and contemporary art: Redefinition of the human body;146
15;Image – Body – Knowledge: an interdisciplinary and critical appraisalof images;154
16;‘Sehkollektiv’: Sight styles in diagnostic computed tomography;164
17;IV. Ethical considerations;180
18;Looking behind the image: Philosophical and ethical issuesin medical imaging;182

Über Autor(innen)

Müller, Irmgard
Irmgard Müller.

1977–1985: Professorin für Geschichte der Medizin an der Universität Marburg.

1985–2005: Leiterin des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin und Medizinhistorischen Sammlung der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Mitglied der Leopoldina.

Veröffentlichungen über: Geschichte der Schiffsmedizin, Arzneimittelgeschichte, Meeresbiologie, "Physica" Hildegards von Bingen, Kräuterbücher des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Medizin und Botanik der Goethezeit, Gebrauch und Missbrauch der Einbildungskraft in der Medizin, Darstellung als Problem und Promotor medizinischen Wissens, Strategien der Evidenzerzeugung in der Medizin.

Wang, Shih-chang
Shih-Chang Wang, Parker Hughes Chair of Diagnostic Radiology and Medical Imaging, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney. Foundation chair of Radiology at the University of Sydney in 2008. He is the founding President of the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia Society (HOMSEA). His research interests include Radiology education and training, Interventional radiology, esp. interventional oncology, Musculoskeletal imaging and intervention, Breast screening and breast MRI.

Chhem, Rethy K
Rethy K. Chhem is director of the Division of Human Health at the International Atomic Energy Agency. He taught radiology at the University of Sherbrooke, McGill University, and University of Western Ontario in Canada and at the National University of Singapore. He was the former Chair of radiology and nuclear medicine at the University of Western Ontario. His current research encompasses the history and philosophy of medicine and science with a focus on medical imaging, paleoradiology, history of medicine in Southeast Asia and history of Angkorian medicine.

Fangerau, Heiner
Heiner Fangerau ist Direktor des Instituts für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die Geschichte der Medizinischen Diagnostik, Historische Netzwerkanalysen und die Medizin im Nationalsozialismus.