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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Whitney (Whit) Pow Abstract The span between 1973 and 1981 marks a number of significant changes in computer history, medical history, and queer and transgender (trans) history in the United States: the development of the earliest object-oriented graphical user interfaces used in the Xerox Alto...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of subjection through blindness—by governmental, military, and medical regimes—and to suggest that blindness can be mobilized to recover subjectivity. I trace how both “cultural” and medical diagnoses of ability and disability constitute the grounds for a troubling reiteration of power and knowledge and create...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 99–125.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in the crematoria. Simultaneously, it radically re-genders an exceptional survival scene recorded as autobiographical truth by witness testimony. A young Hungarian girl's survival of a Zyklon B gassing became exceptional among other incidents of survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau due to the medical assistance offered...
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in No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 3. Marina (Daniela Vega) is subjected to the scrutiny and cruel stares of the state and medical establishment. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017)
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Lisa Nakamura Images of biometric screens are becoming increasingly common in television and film, particularly in genres such as police procedurals, “terror” television programs, and medical dramas. Digital surveillant screens establish and produce authority and scientific truths about national...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to their conditions of possibility. In this light, the rise of technologies for the modulation of the human voice since the nineteenth century is intertwined with the rise of new economic, political, and medical systems of control. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 4–17.
Published: 01 May 1992
...
Camera Obscura 29 is the second of two issues on imaging technolo-
gies and the cultural inscription of science. As in Camera 06scura 28,
the essays here consider the nature and authority of scientific and
medical inscription. Both terms in this thematic title are deliberately
generic...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 57–90.
Published: 01 May 1992
... the interior body to the
curtained authority of the medical office. To unlearn the censorship
of the living body’s visualized organs-particularly in a context where
women critics can be subjects of these imaging technologies-is a
prerequisite for reclaiming the body from the monopoly of scientific...
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 128–135.
Published: 01 May 1981
... health. Both films
combine testimonial and narrative to explore a range of issues that are
of central concern to the women’s health movement-self-examina-
tion, access to medical technology, problems surrounding the use of
DES, birth control pills and the IUD, the high rate of hysterectomies...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 224–232.
Published: 01 May 1992
... type of surgery, she
faces further multiple medical philosophies about whether to take an
anti-cancer drug, which type, and how long to take it. A man with
severe problems of benign prostate disease (for example, incontinence,
feelings of urgency to urinate, and a burning sensation) must...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 244–246.
Published: 01 May 1992
... Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Contributors
Eric Baumgartner is lead programmer for the Dartmouth Medical School
Interactive Media Laboratory. He programmed and developed authoring tools
for the Shared Decision-making Programs.
Lisa Cartwright...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 18–54.
Published: 01 May 1992
...
The battery of new optical treatments under development in medicine
is part of a visual culture that extends beyond the field of medicine.’
How is the course of medical imaging research determined, and who
benefits from new visual technologies? A recent controversy over
federal funding of breast...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 4–19.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., neuroscience,
obstetrics and gynecology, medical anthropology, medical sociology,
interactive multimedia development, history of medicine, social and
cultural studies of science, journalism, communication, women’s stud-
ies, art, art history, and activism-examine the ways...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 206–237.
Published: 01 January 1992
... technologies developed during
the decade of the 1980s are techniques of visualization that redefine
the range of human perception. ’ New medical imaging technologies
such as laparoscopy and computer tomography (CT) make the body
visible in such a way that its internal status can be accessed before...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 238–261.
Published: 01 January 1992
...
(Urchins, 1917) offered a narrativization of an “anatomy lesson.” This
text depicts a medical ritual in which a young female body is exhibited
for anatomical dissection. Maria, a destitute madwoman, dies in a fire
at the insane asylum. The corpse of the madwoman-pauper, un-
wanted-is donated...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 86–100.
Published: 01 September 1983
... the physiology of the body, combining an aesthetic dimension for
wide appeal and a medical discourse' for validation. Despite its claim to
scientific objectivity, its biases are evident: medicine can help restore the
nuclear family. The result is an extremely conservative documentary whose
power and danger...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 214–223.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Ann D. Satterfield Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992
Pages from Treatment
Ann D. Satterfield
The following is a special project for Camera Obscura based on pages
from the artist’s book Treatment. The book is a dialogue between the
artist as patient and medical...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 86–105.
Published: 01 May 1995
... of the
subject; as such, they are both the symptom and the sign tout court of
homosexuality as it appears in the late-Code "social problem" film.
Produced at a time of extraordinary contradiction in medical and
juridical assessments, while homosexuality was still considered a sick-
ness, yet one...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 91–129.
Published: 01 May 1992
...
Department’s Committee on Training Camp Activities; performed by
a supporting cast of enlisted men; filmed by cameramen from the
Medical Department of the Army; and distributed jointly by ASHA
and the USPHS, the film was, not surprisingly, an amateur project even...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 130–149.
Published: 01 May 1992
.... The circulation of fetal
images by anti-abortion forces, the routine use of ultrasonography in
monitoring pregnancy and labor, the development of widely publi-
cized, culturally valorized, medical techniques in the area of fetal
therapy and repair have together worked to shift the terms in which...
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