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Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 MRI as Cultural Icon 1 2 Painting by Numbers: The Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Visual Turn in Medicine 24 3 Seeing Is Believing: The Transformation of MRI Examinations into Authoritative Knowledge 47 4 The Image Factory: Work Practices in MRI Units 77 5 The Political Economy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 109 6 A Sacred Technology? Theorizing Visual Knowledge in the Twenty-first Century 149 Appendix: Research Methodology 167 References 173 Index 193 This page intentionally left blank. ...

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