Technologized images, technologized bodies /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Description:	262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical anthropology. Medical technology -- Social aspects. Human body -- Social aspects. Human body -- Social aspects. Medical anthropology. Medical technology -- Social aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8115434

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Other authors / contributors:	Edwards, Jeanette, 1954- Harvey, Penelope, 1956- Wade, Peter, 1957-
ISBN:	9781845456641 (hardback : alk. paper) 1845456645 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
Chapter 2. Pharmaceutical Witnessing: Drugs for Life in an Era of Direct-to-consumer Advertising
Chapter 3. Picturing the Brain Inside, Revealing the Illness Outside: A Comparison of the Different Meanings Attributed to Brain Scans by Scientists and Patients
Chapter 4. Embodied Brains: Why Science Studies Needs the Anthropology of Museums
Chapter 5. Spectacles of Reason: An Ethnography of Indian Gastroenterologists
Chapter 6. Technokids? Insulin Pumps Incorporated in Young People's Bodies and Lives
Chapter 7. Wearable Augmentations: Imaginaries of the Informed Body
Chapter 8. 'Embryos Are Our Baby': Abridging Hope, Body and Nation in Transnational Ova Donation
Chapter 9. Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality and Cellular Biotechnologies
Notes on Contributors
Index

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