CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of the Mechanical Viewbox (Body, Commodity, Text)

by Barry Saunders (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $48.46

  Presents 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 where CT images are made and interpreted within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital.