The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender, and Science

by Lisa Cartwright and Constance Penley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814715680
• ISBN13: 9780814715680
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"