The transparent body : a cultural analysis of medical imaging / José van Dijck.

Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2005], ©2005.

xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.

Mediated bodies and the ideal of transparency -- The operation film as a mediated freak show -- Bodyworlds: the art of plastinated cadavers -- Fantastic voyages in the age of endoscopy -- X-ray vision in Thomas Mann's The magic mountain -- Ultrasound and the visible fetus -- Digital cadavers and virtual dissection.