Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, reflections and actions

Franz Steiner Verlag

ISBN 10: 3515100466 / ISBN 13: 9783515100465

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012

2012. Paperback. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9783515100465

Synopsis:

Medical Imaging plays a prominent role in contemporary medical research and practice. At the same time imaging in its broadest sense, including illustration, diagramming, model-making, photography and other forms of image rendering, has a long tradition in medicine. Imaging has served different purposes ranging from depicting to backing concepts or creating convincing evidence. Thus, imaging the human body has different aspects not only related to techniques or current interpretations of visual representations through medical imaging technologies. The way the human body was and is displayed in medicine also reflects a range of cultural, historical, artistic and scientific concerns.Therefore, the editors of this book organized an international interdisciplinary conference in 2010 to bring together perspectives on Medical Imaging from medicine, philosophy, history and arts. This book summarizes the results of this interdisciplinary conference including representative examples of what was presented and discussed. It offers stimulating papers addressing readers interested in the status of medical images and their interpretation by different disciplines.

About the Author: Heiner Fangerau ist Direktor des Instituts fur Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin der Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Geschichte der Medizinischen Diagnostik, Historische Netzwerkanalysen, Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Rethy K. Chhem is director of the Division of Human Health at the International Atomic Energy Agency. He taught radiology at the University of Sherbrooke, McGill University, and University of Western Ontario in Canada and at the National University of Singapore. He was the former Chair of radiology and nuclear medicine at the University of Western Ontario. His current research encompasses the history and philosophy of medicine and science with a focus on medical imaging, paleoradiology, history of medicine in Southeast Asia and history of Angkorian medicine. Irmgard Muller. 1977-1985: Professorin fur Geschichte der Medizin an der Universitat Marburg. 1985-2005: Leiterin des Instituts fur Geschichte der Medizin und Medizinhistorischen Sammlung der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. Mitglied der Leopoldina. Veroffentlichungen uber: Geschichte der Schiffsmedizin, Arzneimittelgeschichte, Meeresbiologie, "Physica" Hildegards von Bingen, Krauterbucher des Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit, Medizin und Botanik der Goethezeit, Gebrauch und Missbrauch der Einbildungskraft in der Medizin, Darstellung als Problem und Promotor medizinischen Wissens, Strategien der Evidenzerzeugung in der Medizin. Shih-Chang Wang, Parker Hughes Chair of Diagnostic Radiology and Medical Imaging, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney. Foundation chair of Radiology at the University of Sydney in 2008. He is the founding President of the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia Society (HOMSEA). His research interests include Radiology education and training, Interventional radiology, esp. interventional oncology, Musculoskeletal imaging and intervention, Breast screening and breast MRI.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, ...
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New