{"product_id":"the-visible-woman-paula-treichler-9780814715567","title":"The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender, and Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eHand in hand with such health crises as HIV\/AIDS, breast cancer, and the resurgence of tuberculosis has come an explosion of scientific and medical technologies. As technology documents illness with ever greater precision and clarity, the knowledge and vocabulary of patients is being similarly expanded by activists, consumer advocates, and artists working with new electronic technologies.\u003cbr\u003e Into this breach steps \u003cb\u003eThe Visible Woman\u003c\/b\u003e, collecting professional, academic, and lay viewpoints on gender and the role of visual and textual representation in contemporary health and science. From fetal photography and mammography to mental retardation and chronic fatigue syndrome, \u003cb\u003eThe Visible Woman\u003c\/b\u003e reveals how identities are constructed in medical research and public health initiatives, as well as in popular press accounts of health. New ways of seeing the body, through medical imaging, plastic and sexual surgery, and services for people with disabilities, are all informed, the book argues, by a broader cultural fascination with visuality and media.\u003cbr\u003e Emphasizing the authors' first-hand experiences as medical practitioners, activists, scholars, and patients, \u003cb\u003eThe Visible Woman\u003c\/b\u003e breaks with more established approaches that cast patients as passive objects of medical inquiry, and medical professionals as perpetrators of institutional exploitation in the name of the public good. Asking what it means to be on both ends of the microscope, \u003cb\u003eThe Visible Woman\u003c\/b\u003e highlights the complex perspectives of medical and scientific practitioners who themselves exist both inside and outside their workplaces and professional identities.\u003cbr\u003e The contributors are Michael Bérubé, Lisa Cartwright, Stacie A. Colwell, Richard Cone, Anne Eckman, Valerie Hartouni, Janet Lyon, Emily Martin, Gaye Naismith, Mark Rose, Ella Shohat, Vivian Sobchack, Carol Stabile, Sandy Stone, and Paula A. Treichler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Treichler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814715567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814715567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Paula Treichler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086914892031,"sku":"9780814715567","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_20910aa3-9174-4243-95f1-6be3814f725b.jpg?v=1769097296","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-visible-woman-paula-treichler-9780814715567","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}