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The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye follows the nineteenth-century embrace of the visible in new spectatoria, or demonstration halls, through the twentieth-century cinematic explorations of microscopic realms and simulations of surgery in virtual reality. With essays on Doc Edgerton's stroboscopic techniques that froze time and Eames's visualization of scale in Powers of Ten, among others, contributors ask how we are taught to see the unseen.
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction: Visual Lessons and the Life Sciences | p. 1 |
| Trained Judgment, Intervention, and the Biological Gaze: How Charles Sedgwick Minot Saw Senescence | p. 14 |
| Facing Animals in the Laboratory: Lessons of Nineteenth Century Medical School Microscopy Manuals | p. 44 |
| Photography and Medical Observation | p. 68 |
| Cinematography without Film: Architectures and Technologies of Visual Instruction in Biology around 1900 | p. 94 |
| Cinema as Universal Language of Health Education: Translating Science in Unhooking the Hookworm (1920) | p. 121 |
| Screening Science: Pedagogy and Practice in William Dieterle's Film Biographies of Scientists | p. 141 |
| Optical Constancy, Discontinuity, and Nondiscontinuity in the Eameses' Rough Sketch | p. 162 |
| Educating the High-Speed Eye: Harold E. Edgerton' Early Visual Conventions | p. 186 |
| On Fate and Specification: Images and Models of Developmental Biology | p. 213 |
| Form and Function: A Semiotic Analysis of Figures in Biology Textbooks | |
| Neuroimages, Pedagogy, and Society | p. 255 |
| The Anatomy of a Surgical Simulation: The Mutual Articulation of Bodies in and through the Machine | p. 277 |
| Contributors | p. 311 |
| Index | p. 315 |
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ISBN: 9781611680447
ISBN-10: 1611680441
Series: Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 10th January 2012
Publisher: University Press of New England
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.369
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