2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Investigations of Fundamental "Body" - Image and Ethical Considerations about it
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11610037
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
倫理学
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| Research Institution | Wakayama Medical University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKEYAMA Shigemitsu Wakayama Med. Univ., School of Let. Asst. Prof., 教養部, 助教授 (60254520)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2002
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| Keywords | body / medical imaging / X-ray / technology / gender |
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| Research Abstract |
The development of medical imaging technology, especially X-ray imaging, restructured out "body"-image. Our body became an objectively fixed data, "Body"-image und the knowledges about body, which we have now, are constructed by medicine. Medicine priviledly has and encloses those image und knowledges, and it gives us the body of authentic knowledges and images. Our lived-body is, so to say, absent. This situation is a matter-of-fect. We cannot escape from it. We should rather trace the intentions and concepts of imaging technology, which determine the act of medical imaging. It is important in this tracing to consider the fact, that medical imaging, therefore medicine in itself, has a gender-bias.
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