Shaved or Saved? Disciplining Women's Bodies

Too heavy to save or be saved.

Disciplining the Sustainable City: Moving Beyond Science, Technology or Society?

Making Images/Making Bodies: Visibilizing and Disciplining through Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

This article analyzes how the medical gaze made possible by MRI operates in radiological laboratories. It argues that although computer-assisted medical imaging technologies such as MRI shift radiological analysis to the realm of cyborg visuality, radiological analysis continues to depend on visualization produced by other technologies and diagnostic inputs. In the radiological laboratory, MRI ...

Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

Should severely injured legs be saved or amputated?

Design: This multicentre, prospective, observational study, conducted in the United States between March 1994 and June 1997, enrolled 601 patients aged 16–69 years with complicated fractures and other severe injuries below the distal femur. Exclusion criteria were decreased level of consciousness (Glasgow Coma Scale score < 15), spinal cord deficits, previous amputation, thirddegree burns, psyc...