NANCY ANDERSON is an assistant professor of visual studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo. MICHAEL R. DIETRICH is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College.
"The individual essays are scholarly, insightful and well
written."-- "The British Journal for the History of Science"
"The detailed case studies offer insights into a wide range of
practices of visualization in the life sciences. Crucially, the
essays highlight that scientific seeing cannot be considered in
isolation from the use of other senses, in particular tactile
engagement with objects under scrutiny. The contributors show that
image making is an act of labor and that the "educated eye"
requires a skillful hand. The collection thus provides a diverse
set of case studies and valuable interdisciplinary takes on recent
and contemporary visualization that may appeal to historians of
modern medicine and science who are interested in the role of
images, in pedagogy, in the formation of professional identities,
and in the relationship between science and the public."-- "Isis"
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