Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans are often linked to transparency, truth, and progress in media and popular science narratives. But, can MRI provide the corporeal transparency ascribed to it? Drawing on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews, Kelly Joyce will follow MRI scans from the MRI unit to the reading room to the referring clinician's office. Discussing technologists' and physicians' work practices offers insight into how health care professionals understand the technology and why they use it. Examining MRI in practice raises questions about visuality, identity, and health in the 21st century.
Additional support: College of Medicine