Magnetic appeal : MRI and the myth of transparency /
Kelly A. Joyce.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2008.
- viii, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Cornell paperbacks. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-192) and index.
MRI as cultural icon -- Painting by numbers : the development of magnetic resonance imaging and the visual turn in medicine -- Seeing is believing : the transformation of MRI examinations into authoritative knowledge -- The image factory : work practices in MRI units -- The political economy of magnetic resonance imaging -- A sacred technology? : theorizing visual knowledge in the twenty-first century.