The Visible Human Project Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine
- List Price: $170.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 10/01/2000
Description:
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 computerized culture.
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Bringing together medical conceptions of the human body with theories of visual culture from Foucault to Donna Haraway, Waldby links the VHP to a range of other biomedical projects, such as the Human Genome Project and cloning, which approach living bodies as data sources.
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