Naked To The Bone Download

Author: Bettyann H. Kevles
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 020132833X
Category: Medical

Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century

A century ago, the living body, like most of the material world, was opaque. Download Naked To The Bone medical books for free.
Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured and X-ray image of his wife's fingerAher wedding ring Afloating" around a white boneAand our range of vision changed forever. By the 1920s, X-ray technology was common-place: all army recruits had lined up for chest pictures during WWI, and children were examining the bones of their feet in shoe store fluoroscopes, spectacularly unaware of the radiation they were absorbing. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and over seventy striking illustrations, science writer Bettyann Holtzman Kevles shows how X-rays and the subsequent daughter technologiesACT, MRI, PET, ultrasoundAtransformed the practice of medicine (from pediatrics to n Get Naked To The Bone our bestseller medical books.

Naked To The Bone Download

Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured and X-ray image of his wife's fingerAher wedding ring Afloating" around a white boneAand our range of vision changed forever Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and over seventy striking illustrations, science writer Bettyann Holtzman Kevles shows how X-rays and the subsequent daughter technologiesACT, MRI, PET, ultrasoundAtransformed the practice of medicine (from pediatrics to n

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