The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on particular kinds of technology or taken only a purely textual/visual (cultural studies) approach to images of the body. Combining approaches from three of the most dynamic and popular fields of contemporary social anthropology the study of the visual, the study of the technological and the study of the human body this volume draws these together and interrogates their intersection using insights from ethnographic approaches. Offering a fascinating and wide range of perspectives, the chapters in this volume bring an innovative focus that reflects the authors shared interest in the body and visualising technologies.

Penelope Harvey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester and co-Director of CRESC (ESRC Centre for Research on Socio- Cultural Change). She has done ethnographic research in Peru, Spain and the UK, and published on engineering practice, state formation, information technologies and the politics of communication.

List of Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Technologized Images, Technologized BodiesJeanette Edwards,Penny Harvey, andPeter Wade

Chapter 2. Pharmaceutical Witnessing: Drugs for Life in an Era of Direct-to-consumer AdvertisingJoseph Dumit

Chapter 3. Picturing the Brain Inside, Revealing the Illness Outside: A Comparison of the Different Meanings Attributed to Brain Scans by Scientists and PatientsSimon Cohn

Chapter 4. Embodied Brains: Why Science Studies Needs the Anthropology of MuseumsAnne Lorimer

Chapter 5. Spectacles of Reason: An Ethnography of Indian GastroenterologistsStefan Ecks

Chapter 6. Technokids? Insulin Pumps Incorporated in Young Peoples Bodies and LivesGriet Scheldeman

Chapter 7. Wearable Augmentations: Imaginaries of the Informed BodyAna Viseu andLucy Suchman

Chapter 8. Embryos Are Our Baby: Abridging Hope, Body and Nation in Transnational Ova DonationMichal Nahman

Chapter 9. Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality and Cellular BiotechnologiesHannah Landecker

Notes on Contributors Index