Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century (Sloan Technology Series) Hardcover – December 1, 1996 Author: Bettyann Holtzman Kevles | Language: English | ISBN:
0813523583 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Amazon.com Review
It is difficult for us to imagine how mysterious the inside of a living person seemed only 100 years ago, when x-rays were discovered. At that time only God could see a person in the mother's womb; now ultrasound baby pictures, like the one of Bettyann Kevles's grandson on the dedication page of
Naked to the Bone, can be mailed out six months before the child is born. Kevles provides an excellent history of the technology of medical imaging--x-rays, CT, NMR, PET, ultrasound, and mammography--but builds on it to examine the wider ramifications of bodily transparency. Anyone going through the high-tech diagnostic gauntlet of the turn of the millennium will want to read this book.
From Publishers Weekly
Though it would be hard to imagine a topic with less apparent general appeal, this addition to the Sloan Technology Series is in fact a very good read. Writing 101 years after the discovery of X rays by Wilhelm Roentgen, the author presents the history of the technology, showing how it was refined over the following 50 years and challenged after WWII by newer technologies based on television and the computer. Because of X rays, people began to see the world differently, and we now are at the point where we "no longer accept surfaces as barriers, but see them instead as smoky scrims through which we now have access." At the same time, X rays became associated with tissue damage and ultimately with cancer, making them the first technology with a "built-in time bomb." This has caused us to think differently about science than we did before, the author claims, even though fear of the unintended consequences of knowledge goes back in our culture at least as far as Icarus and is more recently manifested in the cautionary tales of Drs. Faust and Frankenstein. The second wave of imaging technology, involving CT, MRI and PET scans, has had less of a traumatic effect on culture, perhaps because each advance was a more gradual accretion based on previous efforts. While this is interesting science, it is the cultural effects spelled out in the final chapter on "The Transparent Body in Late Twentieth-Century Culture" that constitute the heart of this engrossing and informative book. Illustrated.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Series: Sloan Technology Series
- Hardcover: 398 pages
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 1, 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813523583
- ISBN-13: 978-0813523583
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 6.5 x 10 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,001,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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