Screening The Body

Author : Lisa Cartwright
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0816622906

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Screening the Body by Lisa Cartwright Pdf

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such issues come to be established and accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? How are the specialized techniques and codes of these imaging techniques determined, and whose bodies are studied, diagnosed and treated with the help of optical recording devices? "Screening the Body" traces the unusual history of scientific film during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, presenting material that is at once disturbing and engrossing. Lisa Cartwright looks at films like "The Elephant Electrocution". She brings to light eccentric figures in the history of the science film such as William P. Spratling who used Biograph equipment and crews to film epileptic seizures, and Thomas Edison's lab assistants who performed x-ray experiments on their own bodies. Drawing on feminist film theory, cultural studies, the history of film, and the writings of Foucault, Lisa Cartwright illustrates how this scientific cinema was a part of a broader tendency in society toward the technological surveillance, management, and physical transformation of the individual body and the social body. She frequently points out the similarities of scientific film to works of avant-garde cinema, revealing historical ties among the science film, popular media culture and elite modernist art and film practices. Ultimately, Cartwright unveils an area of film culture that has rarely been discussed, but which will leave readers scouring video libraries in search of the films she describes.

Author : Mark de Valk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137399182

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Screening the Tortured Body by Mark de Valk Pdf

Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily repression. Through a critique of sovereign power and its application of punishment ‘for transgressions against the state’, the collected works, herein, assess the polticised-body via a range of cinematic perspectives. Imagery, character construction and narrative devices are examined in their account of hegemonic-sanctioned torture and suppression as a means to a political outcome. Screening The Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold elicits philosophical and cultural accounts of the ‘retrained’ body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.

Author : Masakazu Toi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811976308

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Screening and Risk Reduction Strategies for Breast Cancer by Masakazu Toi Pdf

This book provides readers with the most up-to-date practical information on breast cancer screening. Since breast cancers are highly heterogeneous, time to clinical onset from the initial carcinogenesis differs diversely between cancers. Pathological germline variants and driver mutations cause a high lifetime risk of breast cancer. The lifetime risks are various according to what genes are pathologically dysfunctional. Integrated omics and imaging technologies have established varying tumour characteristics. Thus, this book suggests that a more individualised scheme is required to improve breast cancer screening. A key aim is to demonstrate how multiple diagnostic imaging modalities such as mammography, ultrasonography, MRI, PET and dbPET improve breast cancer screening accuracy. Mammography screening alone may have a limited impact on breast cancer risk prediction. These issues are crucial to discuss. Clinical experts recommend that new modalities be incorporated for women with dense breasts, like ultrasonography, dynamic mammography, MRI and maybe breast-dedicated PET. Topics on these modalities are going to be summarized in this book. An in-depth review of these modalities is summarised in this book. In addition, new diagnostic modalities, including risk assessment tools, multi-cancer early detection tests using liquid biopsy, the role of protein biomarkers in breast cancer risk screening, challenges, and hopes for future advances, are also covered in this book.

Author : E Scott Sills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9783319168920

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Screening the Single Euploid Embryo by E Scott Sills Pdf

Intended for readers with a background in fertility medicine as well as those less familiar with IVF, this comprehensive work presents an update on preimplantation genetic testing to enable single embryo transfer (SET). An international cast of contributors explains the treatment sequence—from ovulation induction to luteal support—aiming to transfer only one euploid embryo. Applications of molecular techniques for gamete and embryo assessment are fully detailed, with a focus on the strengths and limitations of each. In addition, expert commentary is shared across a range of regulatory challenges associated with embryo screening and cryopreservation. As access to advanced reproductive technology increases against a sharper background of healthcare reform, clinicians, economists, bioethicists and legislators alike will find this new volume relevant and highly accessible.

Author : Jens Velten
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031056031

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Screening Foreign Direct Investment in the EU by Jens Velten Pdf

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from third countries—a desirable form of investment to boost the EU’s economy or a threat to important EU and Member State interests that must be mitigated via FDI screening mechanisms? FDI screening is a complex, controversial and highly topical subject at the intersection of law, politics and economics. This book analyzes the political rationale behind FDI screening in the EU, reveals the legal limitations of current FDI screening mechanisms based on security and public order, and identifies legislative options for broader screening mechanisms in accordance with EU and international economic law. In particular, the book identifies the four main concerns in the EU regarding FDI from third countries: distortive competition effects; the lack of reciprocity on FDI treatment between the EU and the investor’s home country; objectives of the investor or their home country that may be detrimental to EU interests; and safety of private information. On this basis, the book analyzes the Screening Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/452) and its newly introduced screening ground “security or public order” and asks whether this and other similar screening grounds based on the notions of security, public order and public policy can address these concerns with regard to foreign investors. Based on an analysis of WTO law and EU primary law, it argues that they cannot. Thus, the question arises: Do the EU and Member States have the flexibility to adopt broader FDI screening mechanisms? To answer this question, the book examines the freedoms of capital movement and establishment in EU primary law, as well as various sources of international economic law such as, first and foremost, the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services, but also other bi- and plurilateral trade and investment treaties, including the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment. In closing, the book identifies various legislative options for broader FDI screening mechanisms—and their shortcomings.

Author : Maximilian F Reiser,Gerhard van Kaick,Christian Fink,S.O. Schoenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540498315

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Screening and Preventive Diagnosis with Radiological Imaging by Maximilian F Reiser,Gerhard van Kaick,Christian Fink,S.O. Schoenberg Pdf

This book provides clinicians with a broader understanding of screening and preventive diagnosis using radiological imaging. The first part of the book is dedicated to the fundamentals of screening and preventive diagnosis. The second part of the book discusses the most important practical examples of radiological screening and surveillance, both for unselected populations, as well as for individual risk groups.

Author : Deepak Sebastian
Publisher : JP Medical Ltd
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789351529545

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Differential Screening of Regional Pain in Musculoskeletal Practice by Deepak Sebastian Pdf

Differential Screening of Regional Pain in Musculoskeletal Practice covers screening across the musculoskeletal system, outlining the biochemical basis for pain. This book is written by US based physical therapist, osteopath and naturopath, Deepak Sebastian. Enhanced by 116 images and illustrations, Differential Screening of Regional Pain in Musculoskeletal Practice is an excellent reference guide for physical therapists who need to identify a set of conditions or diagnoses for specific regional pain symptoms.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464967191

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Issues in Prevention, Diagnostics, Screening, Statistics, and Testing: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Prevention, Diagnostics, Screening, Statistics, and Testing: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Prevention, Diagnostics, Screening, Statistics, and Testing. The editors have built Issues in Prevention, Diagnostics, Screening, Statistics, and Testing: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Prevention, Diagnostics, Screening, Statistics, and Testing in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Prevention, Diagnostics, Screening, Statistics, and Testing: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Catherine Waldby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134768431

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AIDS and the Body Politic by Catherine Waldby Pdf

This book demonstates the extent to which establis hed ideas about the virus, the immune system, the HIV test and the epidemiology of the disease rely upon unexamined, conservative assumptions about sexual identity and sexual difference.

Author : Alan Cassels
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781771000338

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Seeking Sickness by Alan Cassels Pdf

“Alan Cassels strips layers of expectation, hype, jargon, false-starts, and conflicts of interest off the medical screening mantra.” —Nortin M. Hadler, author of Worried Sick Why wouldn’t you want to be screened to see if you’re at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right? Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness takes us inside the world of medical screening, where well-meaning practitioners and a profit-motivated industry offer to save our lives by exploiting our fears. He writes that promoters of screening overpromise on its benefits and downplay its harms, which can range from the merely annoying to the life threatening. If you’re facing a screening test for breast or prostate cancer, high cholesterol, or low testosterone, someone is about to turn you into a patient. You need to ask yourself one simple question: Am I ready for all the things that could go wrong? “With engaging clarity backed by academic rigor, Cassels discusses a variety of popular investigational procedures . . . an excellent way to start the important process of self-education.” —Quill & Quire “Smartly written and very readable.” —Brian Goldman, MD, author of The Secret Language of Doctors “Cassels tackles this touchy topic, looking at it test by test. His overarching message is that modern medicine has ‘overpromised’ with claims that screening will save our lives. He contends that with the lack of hard evidence on benefits, the evidence of harm from by such screening, as well as the multi-billion dollar interests at stake, we should approach this kind of screening with great precaution.” —Canadian Women’s Health Network

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2138 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Patents
ISBN : SRLF:D0003596830

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Materials Advisory Board,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Panel on Passenger Screening,Committee on Commercial Aviation Security
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780309054393

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Airline Passenger Security Screening by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Materials Advisory Board,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Panel on Passenger Screening,Committee on Commercial Aviation Security Pdf

This book addresses new technologies being considered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for screening airport passengers for concealed weapons and explosives. The FAA is supporting the development of promising new technologies that can reveal the presence not only of metal-based weapons as with current screening technologies, but also detect plastic explosives and other non-metallic threat materials and objects, and is concerned that these new technologies may not be appropriate for use in airports for other than technical reasons. This book presents discussion of the health, legal, and public acceptance issues that are likely to be raised regarding implementation of improvements in the current electromagnetic screening technologies, implementation of screening systems that detect traces of explosive materials on passengers, and implementation of systems that generate images of passengers beneath their clothes for analysis by human screeners.

Author : IOS Press (Firm)
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781614990598

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Vibrational Spectroscopy in Diagnosis and Screening by IOS Press (Firm) Pdf

In recent years there has been a tremendous growth in the use of vibrational spectroscopic methods for diagnosis and screening. These applications range from diagnosis of disease states in humans, such as cancer, to rapid identification and screening of microorganisms. The growth in such types of studies has been possible thanks to advances in instrumentation and associated computational and mathematical tools for data processing and analysis. This volume of Advances in Biomedical Spectroscopy contains chapters from leading experts who discuss the latest advances in the application of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), Near infrared (NIR), Terahertz and Raman spectroscopy for diagnosis and screening in fields ranging from medicine, dentistry, forensics and aquatic science. Many of the chapters provide information on sample preparation, data acquisition and data interpretation that would be particularly valuable for new users of these techniques including established scientists and graduate students in both academia and industry.

Author : Saravana Babu Chidambaram,M. Mohamed Essa,M. Walid Qoronfleh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811660924

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Introduction to Toxicological Screening Methods and Good Laboratory Practice by Saravana Babu Chidambaram,M. Mohamed Essa,M. Walid Qoronfleh Pdf

This book focuses on the principles, methods, and interpretation involved in establishing the safety, risk, and hazard assessment of small molecules. It presents the regulatory requirements for risk and hazard identification as per the guidelines of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, and the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use ICH and Schedule ‘Y’, India. It serves as reference material for undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy degree students as well as senior researchers to learn about the principles, methods, and interpretations of systemic dosage (acute and repeated dose) and genotoxicity (in vitro and in vivo), special toxicological investigations such as reproductive and developmental toxicology, carcinogenicity, and toxicokinetics using animal models or in vitro methods, as applicable. This book is the first of its kind in providing information on the principles and methods of implementation of Good Laboratory Practice based on the guidelines of OECD. It includes detailed chapters about the regulatory requirements and guidelines in pharmaceutical products and agrochemicals. It also describes the infrastructure needed for preclinical studies, including in vivo and in vitro facilities.

Author : Walter Werner Holland,Susie Stewart
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 185775770X

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Screening in Disease Prevention by Walter Werner Holland,Susie Stewart Pdf

Screening for disease has become a widely accepted concept in health care. Screening in Disease Prevention takes a critical look at the practice of screening throughout the various stages of life. The book highlights three current challenges: the increasing consumer, media and commercial focus on health in general and screening in particular; providing accurate and understandable information; and tackling the continuing variation in the uptake of screening between different areas of the country and different socio-economic groups. Screening in Disease Prevention is important reading for public health professionals, particularly those involved in screening programs. Policy makers and shapers, medical researchers, pressure groups and support organizations for people with screenable conditions will also find it a valuable reference.