Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India

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Index Aborted Discovery: Science and Creativity in the Third World (Goonatilake), 84 Ackerberg, Robert, 15 Actor-network theory, 126n44, 162n73 Adams, Vincanne, 6–7 Addabbo, Joseph, 30 Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group (ANURAG), 94–95 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), 11, 81, 92–96, 108, 128n60, 162n71 Altman, Lawrence, 136n87 Alvares, Claude, 91 Alzheimer’s disease, 64 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), 48 American College of Radiology, 62 American Journal of Roentgenology, 59 American Medical Association (AMA), 75 American technological sublime, 100– 102, 164n12, 165n20 Amtey, Sharad, 91 ANAMICA-Mini, 95 Anderson, Warwick, 6–7, 164n10 Andrew, Raymond, 45, 47–51, 81, 141n40, 143nn58,64 Asahi Chemical, 54, 105 Association of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopists, 86 Authorship regimes autonomous authorship and, 16 citations and, 9, 15, 127n55 copyright and, 129n10 discursive framing and, 117 Eurocentrism and, 7, 11 historical perspective on, 130n16, 135n69 institutions and, 130n15 invention and, 16–17, 19, 24, 26, 30 kinship and, 135n69 Nobel Prize and, 16 Axelrod, David, 73 Ayckbourne, Alan, 42 Bajpai, R. P., 96–97 Bak, David, 51 Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta, 108, 160n44, 166n40 Basalla, George, 122nn19,22, 156n6 Basic American Medical, 55 Battocletti, Joseph H., 43, 140n16 Bayh-Dole Act, 69 Baylor College of Medicine, 91 Beall, Paula, 91 Beamtimes and Lifetimes (Traweek), 99, 112 Beth Israel Hospital, 83 Bhabha, Homi, 156n7 Biagioli, Mario, 117, 130n14 Big science Britain and, 104–105 colonialism and, 126n48, 139n9 198 Index Big science (continued) emergence of, 39–46, 57 India and, 87, 90–92, 109 research and development (R&D) and, 7–8, 12, 38–46, 57, 87–92, 100– 105, 109, 126nn46,48, 139nn9,11, 147n12, 165n22 United States and, 100–102 “Big Science: Price to Present” (Capshew and Rader), 100 Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Research Laboratory (BMRL), 132n36, 133n52, 135n80, 137n91 Biomedical TechnoService Complex, Inc., 12, 60, 65, 70–75, 147n13, 150n46 Black boxing, 11, 16, 37, 64, 130nn12, 13, 138n5, 144n79 Bloch, Felix, 84–87 Bloembergen, N., 85 Blume, Stuart, 121n15, 139n6, 143n58, 165n30 Bootstrapping, 38, 42, 44–46, 109–110 Bore size (magnet), 29, 41 Bottomley, Paul, 45–46, 49, 62, 141n40 Boundary objects, 126n41 Bourdieu, Pierre, 130–131n16, 149n22 Bowker, Geoffrey, 90, 121n11 Breach Candy Hospital, 83 Bricolage, 38–46, 85 Britain Aberdeen group and, 6, 10, 39, 44–54, 84, 88, 104–105, 144n76 big science and, 104–105 Brown and, 50 Chandrakumar and, 90 colonialism and, 2, 49, 89, 106, 110– 111, 119n1, 120n9, 121n14, 123n25, 126n48, 139n9 competitive advantage of, 46–50 Damadian and, 30 elite Indian students in, 88 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and, 47 funding and, 50, 106 Hospital Physicists’ Association (HPA) and, 48 interdisciplinary collaborations and, 48 International Symposium on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and, 46–47 invention reputation of, 103 Mansfield and, 32 manufacturing flight and, 55 Marshall Plan and, 166n34 Medical Research Council (MRC) and, 48–50, 54, 143n67 MRI culture of, 100, 102–106, 112 nuclear concerns and, 61 Oxford Instruments and, 42–43, 104, 140n26 patents and, 112, 165n27 research and development (R&D) and, 5–6, 9–11, 17, 23, 39, 44–55, 81, 84, 86, 88, 90, 97, 100, 103–111, 134n55, 144n76, 165n26 research culture of, 103–106 Suryan and, 86 technocultural imaginaries and, 103, 106 Thatcher and, 106 U.S. competition and, 46–48 British Journal of Radiology, 51 British Technology Group, 112 Brown, Gordon, 50 Bruker Instruments, 47, 51, 67t, 69 Burri, Regula, 149n22 Bush pump, 136n83 Bydder, Graeme M., 46, 49 Callon, Michel, 12, 59–60, 138n5, 146n3, 148n16 Canada, 69, 72, 76, 88 Cancer Index 199 breast, 65, 93–94, 108 cellular water structures and, 21 MRI detection of, 17, 21, 25–26, 30– 34, 65, 73, 93–94, 104, 108, 133n48, 136n87 National Cancer Institute and, 30 patents and, 133n48 radiotherapy and, 162n75 Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center (RGCIRC) and, 92, 94–95, 128n60, 162n75 tumors and, 21–22, 28, 63, 93, 101 Winestock and, 145n93 Capshew, James, 100 Caronna, John, 59 Carr, Herman, 34, 137n103 Center for Advanced Technology (CAT), 95 Center for Devices and Radiological Health, 66 Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), 94 Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), 90, 95–96 Central nervous system, 63 Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), 95, 97, 162n69 Centre of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Research (CBMRR), 95 Certificate of Need (CON) program, 71–72 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 121n10, 123n24, 156n4 Chandrakumar, N., 88, 90 Chaughule, R. S., 91, 96 Chemical-shifts, 56, 86...