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CT Suite

The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting

Autor: Barry Saunders

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Editura: Duke University Press

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In "CT Suite" the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of ho...

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Autor

Barry Saunders

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

416

EAN

9780822341048

ISBN

0822341042

Enbook ID

04938637

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

717

Dimensiuni

163 x 236 x 30

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In "CT Suite" the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT Suite, the unit where CT images are made and interpreted within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital. Focusing on how expertise is performed and how CT images are made into diagnostic evidence, he concentrates not on the function of CT images for patients, but on the function of the images among professional colleagues going about their routines. Yet Saunders offers more than insider ethnography. He links diagnostic work to practices and conventions from outside medicine and from earlier historical moments. In dialogue with science and technology studies, he makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the visual cultures of medicine. Saunders' analyses are informed by strands of cultural history and theory including art historical critiques of realist representation, Walter Benjamin's concerns about violence in 'mechanical reproduction', and tropes of detective fiction such as intrigue, the case, and the culprit. Saunders analyzes the diagnostic 'gaze' of medical personnel reading images at the viewbox, the two-dimensional images or slices of the human body rendered by the scanner, methods of archiving images, and the use of scans as pedagogical tools in clinical conferences. Bringing cloistered diagnostic practices into public view, he reveals the customs and the social and professional hierarchies that are formulated and negotiated around the weighty presence of the CT scanner. At the same time, by returning throughout to the nineteenth-century ideas of detection and scientific authority that inform contemporary medical diagnosis, Saunders highlights the spectres of the past in what appears to be a pre-eminently modern machine.

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