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When imaging reduces the body to mechanics

The cardiac catheterization showed my arteries are clear but watching the dye move through my heart on the screen made me feel like a machine instead of a person.

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Medical visualization can strip away the sense of embodied humanity by revealing the body as purely mechanical.

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“Where Are You with Medical imaging and what it shows?”

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