Imperial technoscience transnational histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India

The origin of modern science is often located in Europe and the West. This Euro/West-centrism relegates emergent practices elsewhere to the periphery, undergirding analyses of contemporary transnational science and technology with traditional but now untenable hierarchical categories. In this book,...

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Autor principal: Prasad, Amit (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2014]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "Invention" of MRI: Priority Dispute, Contested Identities, and Authorship Regime
  • 2. Translating a Dream into Reality: Birth of MRI and Genesis of a "Big Science"
  • 3. Marketing Medicine's "Sports Car": The United States Becomes the "Center"
  • 4. Recovering "Peripheral" History: Genealogy of MRI Research in India
  • 5. Three Cultures of MRI: Local Practices and Global Designs.