Biomedical Visions
-Cultural studies title on imaging and the healthcare system
-Reflecting on knowledge, biomedicine, and visualization
We live today in an age of biomedical visions. The disenchantment of the body through visualization technologies is seemingly unending and the promise of health irresistible. Yet alongside these promissory technologies we find the persistence of epistemic uncertainty, overdiagnosis, unnecessary interventions and healthcare inequalities. Life and sickness happen in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological visions of health and disease, and it is this in-between space that our collection sets out to explore. Each contribution is the product of a unique coming together of two or more authors, each with their own way of thinking about biomedicine, knowledge and the visual. Perspectives from art history, visual studies of science, science and technology studies, sociology and cultural anthropology converge with watercolor paintings, sculptures, comic strips, advertisements and infographics. Each pairing explores one of three interconnected questions: how do images make epistemic things accessible within biomedicine, how do they make expert knowledge intelligible beyond biomedicine and how can we make art objects with biomedicine. The topics range over a wide spectrum of biomedical themes - personalized medicine, neuroimaging, pathology, genetic counseling, Alzheimer's disease, endometriosis, chronic fatigue and structural inequalities in healthcare. Yet at its core, Biomedical Visions is a series of meditations on a simple yet painful truth: images are a primary way of knowing the body, yet they inevitably promise too much and disappoint us in our pursuit of corporeal self-control. This collection draws together different perspectives on epistemology, medicine and artistic practice to make sense both of how biomedicine looks and how we might look differently at biomedicine, in the past, and in the future.
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Contents
Introduction - Alfred Freeborn
On the Use, Reuse, and Misuse of Medical Materials in Art: A Conversation with Vincent Barras and Jillian Crochet - Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio
Building Blocks of the Spectrum - Jacob van der Beugel and Lara Keuck
Seeing the Tangled Tendrils Within: Feeling/Seeing Endometriosis beyond Invisibility - Jaipreet Virdi and Nimisha Bhanot
Mediating Fatigue: From Promotional Material of Pharmaceuticals in the 1960s to Statistical Maps of Brain Dysfunction in Present-Day Neuroimaging Research - Paula Muhr and Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
Images of Tuberculosis: Seeing and Understanding an Ancient, Endemic Disease - Stephen A. Geller and Gideon Manning
Patterns of Pathology in EEG Research: The “Art and Science” of Analyzing Brainwaves in the Mid-Twentieth Century - Flora Lysen and Marlene Bart
Imaginary Imaging: Representing the Normal and the Pathological in a Vision of Cell-Based Interceptive Biomedicine - Cornelius Borck and Robert Meunier
Building Biosociality through Visualizations of Genome-Wide Sequencing Risk for an Online Patient Decision-Making Aid (DECIDE) - Adam Christianson, Ariane Hanemaayer, Sophia Martineck, Alexandra Hamann, Jan M. Friedman, and Alison Elliott
Seen but Not Heard - Awa Naghipour, Joana Atemengue Owona, and Golnar Kat Rahmani
Taking and Making Pictures: The Art of Science and Science of Art - Cat Dawson
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.10.2025 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Schlagworte | biomedical visions • biomedicine • Biomedizin • Computed tomography • CT • Elektronenmikriskopie • Epistemologie • Epistemology • Fluoreszenzmikroskopie • Health Technology • Imaging techniques • Lichtmikroskopie • Magnetic Resonance Imaging • Max Plack Institute • medicine and artistic practice • Microscopy • MRI • neuroimaging • PET • Positron Emission Tomography • Science • spectroscopic imaging • Technology • Visual Studies • x-ray imaging |
| ISBN-10 | 3-7757-6085-7 / 3775760857 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-7757-6085-0 / 9783775760850 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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