CT suite
the work of diagnosis in the age of noninvasive cutting
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Author
Publication
2008 - Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
99,500 words, Guess
Page Count
398 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17009036M
- ISBN-139780822341048
- OCLC Control Number226361827
- Internet Archivectsuiteworkofdia0000barr
- Library of Congress Control Number2008032017
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- Goodreads6845349
Classifications
- DDC616.07/57
- LCCRC78.7.T6 S28 2008
- LCCRC78.7.T6S28 2008
Description
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 within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital where CT images are made and interpreted. 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 for medical professionals 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.
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Series Statement
- Body, commodity, text
Other Editions
- CT suite: the work of diagnosis in the age of noninvasive cutting
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