1st Edition
The Visible Human Project Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine
By Catherine Waldby
Copyright 2000
200 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
List of figures, Acknowledgments, List of acronyms, 1 The Visible Human Project: an initial history, 2 Posthuman spectacle, 3 Theatres of violence: the anatomical sacrifice and the anatomical trace, 4 Virtual surgery: morphing and morphology, 5 IatroGenesis: digital Eden and the reproduction of life, 6 Revenants: death and the digital uncanny, 7 Technogenesis: the posthuman visible, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Catherine Waldby is a Lecturer in the Communications and Cultural Studies Program at Murdoch University, Australia.
