Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780816685257
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Motion pictures in medicine -- History; Medical imaging -- History;

Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound.

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