Keywords
visual rhetoric, medical imaging, surrealism, Brecht, collage, medical, Barthes
Abstract
This text outlines and applies a methodology for deciphering problems and producing new information by analyzing the artifacts produced by medical imaging technologies - text and images - using practices gleaned from Surrealists, semiologists, and visual artists, emphasizing its own form as being the product of the apparatuses that produce it and therefore untrustworthy. Its basic assumption is that every text contains the information necessary to solve problems of all sorts, though because of the limitations of this text in both form and authorial intellect, we may only reach a starting point for a solution herein. In this regard, we are deciphering rather than solving. Further, this text illustrates primarily through narratives how digital imaging technologies mediate our relationship with our doctors, illnesses, and our bodies. It explores how the artifacts produced by medical imaging technologies create a data stream that replaces the corporal patient, shifting the physician's focus from the whole body to pieces and parts. It is a study of texts and technologies. The method evolved from a rhetorical approach to examining the medical imaging artifacts and the processes by which those artifacts come into existence, with the method and form becoming part of the story, producing a wide array of new information that transcends disciplinary constraints.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2008
Advisor
Bowdon, Melody
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
English
Degree Program
Texts and Technology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0002193
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002193
Language
English
Release Date
September 2008
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Koller, Lynn, "Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, And Love On The Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3799.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/3799