Week 4
Medicine + Technology + Art This week's reading “Magnetic Resonance Imaging as Mirror and Portraits” examines how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essentially a form of art. “MRI images become a portrait in so far as they can look back at the viewer” (Casini, 95). My first time getting an MRI was so amazed, at how advanced the machine was, it gives a detailed picture of the inside of your body. I always wonder how people survived back then without this advanced technology. In the lecture, I was surprised when the professor stated, “ technology was not incorporated until the 20th century, and if you used tools and technology you were not considered a doctor” (Vesna, Human Body & Medical Technologies”). I cannot i...