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The visible human project : informatic bodies and posthuman medicine /

The Visible Human Project examines how the VHP provides visual access to every organ of the body, viewable from every angle and capable of being manipulated to simulate living processes like respiration.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waldby, Cathy
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:	Visible Human Project. Visible Human Project Human anatomy > Databases. Human anatomy > Atlases. Medical informatics. Human body (Philosophy) Medicine > Data processing. Bioethics. Human anatomy > Models. Anatomy, Cross-Sectional Bioethics Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Models, Anatomic Medical Informatics Applications Medical Informatics Bioethical Issues
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	020336063X 9780203360637 0415174058 9780415174053 0415174066 9780415174060 9781134688005 1134688008 9781134687954 1134687958 9781134687992 1134687990
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

1. The Visible Human Project : an initial history
2. Posthuman spectacle
3. Theatres of violence : the anatomical sacrifice and the anatomical trace
4. Virtual surgery : morphing and morphology
5. IatroGenesis : digital Eden and the reproduction of life
6. Revenants : death and the digital uncanny
7. Technogenesis : the posthuman visible.