CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting

by Barry F. Saunders

Book Overview

In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT suite, the unit within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital where CT images are made and interpreted. Focusing on how expertise is performed and how CT images are made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341239
• ISBN13: 9780822341239
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"