UID:
almafu_9958239848302883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-68799-0
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0-203-37739-7
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1-134-68800-8
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1-280-07368-3
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9786610073689
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0-203-36063-X
Series Statement:
Biofutures, biocultures
Content:
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 computerised culture.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of acronyms; The Visible Human Project: an initial history; Posthuman spectacle; Theatres of violence: the anatomical sacrifice and the anatomical trace; Virtual surgery: morphing and morphology; IatroGenesis: digital Eden and the reproduction of life; Revenants: death and the digital uncanny; Technogenesis: the posthuman visible; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-17406-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-17405-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203360637
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