." . . this volume has much to offer readers interested in science
and technology and constructs of the body, expecially the 'normal'
body."--"Disabilities Studies Quarterly"
Hand in hand with such health crises as HIV/AIDS, breast cancer,
and the resurgence of tuberculosis has come an explosion of
scientific and medical technologies. As technology documents
illness with ever greater precision and clarity, the knowledge and
vocabulary of patients is being similarly expanded by activists,
consumer advocates, and artists working with new electronic
technologies.
Into this breach steps The Visible Woman, collecting
professional, academic, and lay viewpoints on gender and the role
of visual and textual representation in contemporary health and
science. From fetal photography and mammography to mental
retardation and chronic fatigue syndrome, The Visible Woman reveals
how identities are constructed in medical research and public
health initiatives, as well as in popular press accounts of health.
New ways of seeing the body, through medical imaging, plastic and
sexual surgery, and services for people with disabilities, are all
informed, the book argues, by a broader cultural fascination with
visuality and media.
Emphasizing the authors' first-hand experiences as medical
practitioners, activists, scholars, and patients, The Visible Woman
breaks with more established approaches that cast patients as
passive objects of medical inquiry, and medical professionals as
perpetrators of institutional exploitation in the name of the
public good. Asking what it means to be on both ends of the
microscope, The Visible Woman highlights the complex perspectives
of medical and scientificpractitioners who themselves exist both
inside and outside their workplaces and professional
identities.
The contributors are Michael BA(c)rubA(c), Lisa Cartwright,
Stacie A. Colwell, Richard Cone, Anne Eckman, Valerie Hartouni,
Janet Lyon, Emily Martin, Gaye Naismith, Mark Rose, Ella Shohat,
Vivian Sobchack, Carol Stabile, Sandy Stone, and Paula A.
Treichler.
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