Look Inside Your Body (Look Inside Board Books): 1

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B Holtzmann-Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997)

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From brains and blood to senses and skin - children will love exploring the ins-and-outs of the human body with this fantastic interactive book. Yet I was left with more questions than answers. Are these methods used in real-life diagnosis? If not, why not? Why had these women been allowed to live in such pain for so long? More interrogation into the whys and wherefores would have been appreciated. Hip bone anyone? ‘Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway’ reveals our bodily secrets. (Image credit: BBC) The medical community was an early adopter of photographic technology following its invention in the mid-1800s. Photography was used primarily to document the visible symptoms of patients with particular medical conditions. But for several decades, medical texts continued to favour hand-drawn illustrations of diseases and procedures because a skilled artist was able to capture detail more accurately than a photograph. Digital photography continues to play a role in medicine through documentation, research and education. Video cameras are commonly used to look inside the body, most often in the form of endoscopes.Polaroid photograph of ultrasound scan of foetus in utero, taken at University College Hospital, London, 1981

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Dr Singh says: "The 3D images of the patients’ bodies are incredible. As a doctor, it sometimes feels that language isn’t up to the job of truly explaining what is happening inside the gloriously complex human body. How amazing, then, to have a tool that allows realistic, accurate and personal images to do some of the job for you! When you’re ill, the first step towards recovery is coming to terms with your diagnosis, and I think being able to see, literally, what’s going on inside your own body gives patients the understanding to really do that. But this isn’t just for patients – the truth is, despite all my years of medical training, I’d never seen the human body quite like I did on this show. Being on this show has been a real first for me. I’ve never experienced health in this way, and it’s been an eye-opener." X-ray images were also utilised outside medicine. Between the 1920s and 1960s, for example, shoe-fitting fluoroscopes (also known as pedoscopes) could be found in many shoe shops. A child trying on new shoes would stand on the footpad of the machine while they, a parent and the sales assistant looked through viewing portholes at a continuous X-ray image. The fluorescent image would show the bones of the feet and an outline of the shoes to reveal how well they fitted. I love how interactive it is and would never fail to get children excited. There are so many links you can make with science and would be a fantastic tool to use when introducing different processes and body parts in biology. Look Inside Your Body is one of the best Usborne books, and a book absolutely every family should own. It breaks down the body systems and functions in a way that’s easy for young kids to understand. In 1971, American scientist Raymond Damadian (1936–) discovered that MRI could be used for medical diagnosis. The radio signals emitted by cancer cells in a tumour were different from those in healthy cells and could be isolated by the MRI scanner. Damadian built the first whole-body MRI scanner in 1977, which he called the 'Indomitable'.The Challenge season 39: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the competition series