We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare persist. Life and illness play out in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological notions of health and disease. This publication brings together perspectives from art history, visual science studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology to encounter watercol- ors, sculpture, comics, advertising, and infographics. Images are a primary way of recognizing the body, but they inevitably promise too much and disappoint us in our quest for bodily self-control. The collection brings together epistemology, medicine and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and in the future.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
On the Use, Reuse, and Misuse of Medical Materials in Art: A Conversation with Vincent Barras and Jillian Crochet
Building Blocks of the Spectrum
Seeing the Tangled Tendrils Within: Feeling/Seeing Endometriosis beyond Invisibility
Mediating Fatigue: From Promotional Material of Pharmaceuticals in the 1960s to Statistical Maps of Brain Dysfunction in Present-Day Neuroimaging Research
Images of Tuberculosis: Seeing and Understanding an Ancient, Endemic Disease
Patterns of Pathology in Eeg Research: The "Art and Science" of Analyzing Brainwaves in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Imaginary Imaging: Representing the Normal and the Pathological in a Vision of Cell-Based Interceptive Biomedicine
Building Biosociality through Visualizations of Genome-Wide Sequencing Risk for an Online Patient Decision-Making Aid (Decide)
Seen but Not Heard
Taking and Making Pictures: The Art of Science and Science of Art
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Imprint
