Imperial technoscience : transnational histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India / Amit Prasad.

By:

Prasad, Amit [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Inside technology seriesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, c2014Description: xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780262026956 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

616.07548 PRA 23 012318

Contents:

Introduction; 1 "Invention" of MRI: Priority Dispute, Contested Identities, and Authorship Regime; 2 Translating a Dream into Reality: Birth of MRI and Genesis of a "Big Science"; 3 Marketing Medicine's "Sports Car": The United States Becomes the "Center"; 4 Recovering "Peripheral" History: Genealogy of MRI Research in India; 5 Three Cultures of MRI: Local Practices and Global Designs; Conclusion: Looking Back/Moving Forward; Notes; References; Index; Inside Technology Series.

Summary: The origin of modern science is often located in Europe and the West. This Euro/West-centrism relegates emergent practices elsewhere to the periphery, undergirding analyses of contemporary transnational science and technology with traditional but now untenable hierarchical categories. In this book, Amit Prasad examines features of transnationality in science and technology through a study of magnetic resonance imaging research and development in the United States, Britain, and India.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The origin of modern science is often located in Europe and the West. This Euro/West-centrism relegates emergent practices elsewhere to the periphery, undergirding analyses of contemporary transnational science and technology with traditional but now untenable hierarchical categories. In this book, Amit Prasad examines features of transnationality in science and technology through a study of magnetic resonance imaging research and development in the United States, Britain, and India.

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