The digital anatomy theater: scientific practices for representing the body

Ano: 2011 | Volume: 18 | Número: 3

Autores: Marko Monteiro

Palavras-chave: anatomy theater, scientific visualization, the body, ethnography, computational modeling.

Resumo Inglês:

Contemporary scientific practices for
representing the body are investigated
ethnographically through a
comparative analysis with the
Renaissance anatomy theater, a
practice used to understand the body
in early modern science. First and
foremost, I seek to analyze the manner
through which visualizations of the
inside of the body produce knowledge
of its functioning. The conclusion is
that, currently, the production of
knowledge greatly privileges the
validation of code and modeling of the
biological processes in which one
wishes to intervene. The objective is to
unveil the meanings of the circulation
of images, data and theories that bring
together material bodies, visualization
techniques and scientists, enabling the
production of truth about the body in
a biological sense.