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In the early years of X-rays, many doctors, technicians, and patients died from overexposure to the invisible radiation. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MR-assistant surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments f

Title	:	Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century (Sloan Technology Series)
Author	:	Bettyann Holtzman Kevles
Rating	:	4.73 (703 Votes)
Asin	:	0813523583
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	398Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-6-6
Language	:	English

In the early years of X-rays, many doctors, technicians, and patients died from overexposure to the invisible radiation. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MR-assistant surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Wilhelm Roentgen's X-ray image of his wife's shadowy hand--with her wedding band "floating" around a white bone--convinced doctors to rush the new tool into use for diagnosis and treatment. X-rays, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and PET scans--medical imaging has become a familiar part of modern health care today. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain. A century ago, however,

She explains that "manypeople, including physicians, simply could not tell what they were looking at in a radiograph or through a fluoroscope." I would certainly wish her the same 20 years of reprints for her most informative and well- researched history, but before the second edition comes out she should correct the MRI on page 174, which is a dandy view of the cervical spine but which is inverted! Apparently, progress in medical imaging has far outpaced progress in editorial scrutiny over the past 100 years.. Of particular interest to me, as a lawyer, is her accounts of how x-rays and other imaging devices were first used, and then later relied upon (or rejected) in courts of law. After so many years in the APS, AAAS, NAS, NAE, RNAS, etc., he offers exciting perspectives into these topics that are not so commonly discussed since the Cold War ended.Weinberg's incredible life is well documented in this book, and his optimism that nuclear technology will rise again is inspiring o

It is difficult for us to imagine how mysterious the inside of a living person seemed only 100 years ago, when x-rays were discovered. Anyone going through the high-tech diagnostic gauntlet of the turn of the millennium will want to read this book. Kevles provides an excellent history of the technology of medical imaging--x-rays, CT, NMR, PET, ultrasound, and mammography--but builds on it to examine the wider ramifications of bodily transparency. At that time only God could see a person in the mother's womb; now ultrasound baby pictures, like the one of Bettyann Kevles's grandson on the dedication page of Naked to the Bone, can be mailed out six months before the child is born.