Abstract
My contribution follows aspects of secrecy within the context of medical history. Theoretically, any observation involving a technical apparatus shapes the form of that observation itself and thus deals with epistemic layers of secrecy; because what is observable, as we shall see, is owed to what stays unobservable at the same time. This will be revisited within the context of medical history by asking how visibility and invisibility of the body reflect this epistemic paradox and how secrecy of knowledge production depends in part on the impact of technologies from anatomical images and uroscopies to today’s digital brain imaging technologies.
| Translated title of the contribution | Body secrets. Media theory in medicine from uroscopy to brain observations |
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| Original language | German |
| Title of host publication | Geheimnisse. Secretes |
| Editors | Heather Merle Benbow, Andrew Wright Hurley, Brangwen Stone |
| Place of Publication | Baden-Baden Germany |
| Publisher | Rombach Verlag |
| Pages | 195-210 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783968219073 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783968219066 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |