The Visible Human Project

Author: Catherine Waldby
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B000OT8824

The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine

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. Get The Visible Human Project computer books for free.
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 computerised culture.
In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances in medical technologies have changed the way we view and study the human body, and places the VHP within the history of technologies such as the X-ray Check The Visible Human Project our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances in medical technologies have changed the way we view and study the human body, and places the VHP within the history of technologies such as the X-ray

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