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- catalog abstract "By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen's original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reasonance imaging (MRI) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MRI-assisted surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine - from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology. Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.".
- catalog contributor b9681728.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. The Discovery of X-Rays: Seeing Is Believing -- 2. Medical Applications: The Living Body beneath the Skin -- 3. Technological Innovation 1897-1918: Building a Better Mousetrap -- 4. Medical Politics between the Wars: Setting Standards -- 5. Technological Innovation 1918-1940: Sharper, Clearer, Deeper -- 6. X-Rays in the Imagination: The Avant-Garde through Surrealism -- 7. The Perfect Slice: The Story of CT Scanning -- 8. A Subtler Slice: Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 9. From the Inside Out: PET (Positron Emission Tomography) in Nuclear Medicine -- 10. Looking through Women: The Development of Ultrasound and Mammography -- 11. The Transparent Body in Late Twentieth-Century Culture.".
- catalog description "Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.".
- catalog description "By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen's original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reasonance imaging (MRI) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MRI-assisted surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine - from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-363) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 378 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813523583 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The Sloan technology series".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,".
- catalog subject "1997 C-382".
- catalog subject "616.07/54/0904 20".
- catalog subject "Diagnostic Imaging history.".
- catalog subject "Diagnostic imaging History.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century.".
- catalog subject "RC78.7.D53 K48 1997".
- catalog subject "Radiography, Medical History.".
- catalog subject "Radiology history.".
- catalog subject "WN 11.1 K43n 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Discovery of X-Rays: Seeing Is Believing -- 2. Medical Applications: The Living Body beneath the Skin -- 3. Technological Innovation 1897-1918: Building a Better Mousetrap -- 4. Medical Politics between the Wars: Setting Standards -- 5. Technological Innovation 1918-1940: Sharper, Clearer, Deeper -- 6. X-Rays in the Imagination: The Avant-Garde through Surrealism -- 7. The Perfect Slice: The Story of CT Scanning -- 8. A Subtler Slice: Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 9. From the Inside Out: PET (Positron Emission Tomography) in Nuclear Medicine -- 10. Looking through Women: The Development of Ultrasound and Mammography -- 11. The Transparent Body in Late Twentieth-Century Culture.".
- catalog title "Naked to the bone : medical imaging in the twentieth century / Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".