The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of
the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the
technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans,
x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford
scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and
revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body.
The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact
and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the
visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on
particular kinds of technology or taken only a purely
textual/visual (cultural studies) approach to images of the body.
Combining approaches from three of the most dynamic and popular
fields of contemporary social anthropology - the study of the
visual, the study of the technological and the study of the human
body - this volume draws these together and interrogates their
intersection using insights from ethnographic approaches. Offering
a fascinating and wide range of perspectives, the chapters in this
volume bring an innovative focus that reflects the authors' shared
interest in 'the body' and visualising technologies.
Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. She is author of Born and Bred: Idioms of
Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (2000);
co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of
Assisted Conception (2nd edition, 1999); co-editor of European
Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology (2009); and coeditor, with
Harvey and Wade, of Anthropology and Science (2007).
Penelope Harvey is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Manchester and co-Director of CRESC (ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio- Cultural Change). She has done ethnographic research in
Peru, Spain and the UK, and published on engineering practice,
state formation, information technologies and the politics of
communication.
Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. His publications include Race and
Ethnicity in Latin America (1997); Music, Race and Nation (2000);
Race, Nature and Culture (2002); and Race and Sex in Latin America
(2009).
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