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Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century

Door Bettyann H. Kevles

Categorie	Gezondheidszorg & Geneeskunde
Boeknummer	#374894-XJ22
Titel	Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century
Auteur	Kevles, Bettyann H.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Basic Books
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	020132833X
ISBN13	9780201328332
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A century ago, the living body, like most of the material world, was opaque. Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured and X-ray image of his wife's finger—her wedding ring “floating” around a white bone—and our range of vision changed forever. By the 1920s, X-ray technology was common-place: all army recruits had lined up for chest pictures during WWI, and children were examining the bones of their feet in shoe store fluoroscopes, spectacularly unaware of the radiation they were absorbing. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and over seventy striking illustrations, science writer Bettyann Holtzman Kevles shows how X-rays and the subsequent daughter technologies—CT, MRI, PET, ultrasound—transformed the practice of medicine (from pediatrics to neurosurgery), the r... (Lees verder)ules of evidence in courts, and the vision of artists.
Pagina's	378
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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