Bodies without Borders the Endoscopic Gaze  

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Dijck, José van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 4 no. 2 (Jun. 2001), page 219–237.
Topik: cultural studies of science; medical imaging and popular culture; medicine and culture; television and medicine; virtual reality
Fulltext: 219IJCS42.pdf (87.94KB)

Isi artikel

The movie Fantastic Voyage (1966) is not an innocent science fiction fantasy but a trope that concurrently underlies the development and implementation of a particular medical imaging technique: the endoscope. Sketching the past, present and future of endoscopy, this article advances the broader argument that medical imaging techniques and media technologies are developed concurrently. The endoscopic gaze – the look from within the body – has gradually become a pervasive mode of corporeal inspection, not only in hightech medicine, but in television and other popular media as well. But what are the implications of this ubiquitous endoscopic gaze? How may innovations in endoscopic technologies – including the latest virtual techniques – affect doctors' and patients' concepts of corporeality? And do these innovations, in turn, affect our collective appreciation of surgical intervention and its consequences? Persistent myths of transparency and non-intervention have prevailed in both the production and popular dissemination of the endoscopic gaze, redefining our norms and expectations concerning the perfectibility of the body as a physical container.

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