Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology

by Silvia Casini

An examination of the bodily, situated aspects of data-visualization work, looking at visualization practices around the development of MRI technology.

Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and technologists. In this book, Silvia Casini reveals the affective relations and materiality that turn data into image--and in so doing, gives bodies back to data. Opening the black box of MRI technology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026204529X
• ISBN13: 9780262045292
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.1"