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100			_aAmit Prasad
245			_aImperial technoscience _b: transnational histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India _c/Amit Prasad
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts _b: The MIT Press _c, 2014
300			_axi, 219 pages _c;24 cm.
505			_a Machine generated contents note: 1. "Invention" of MRI: Priority Dispute, Contested Identities, and Authorship Regime -- 2. Translating a Dream into Reality: Birth of MRI and Genesis of a "Big Science" -- 3. Marketing Medicine's "Sports Car": The United States Becomes the "Center" -- 4. Recovering "Peripheral" History: Genealogy of MRI Research in India -- 5. Three Cultures of MRI: Local Practices and Global Designs.
520			_a The origin of modern science is often located in Europe and the West. This Euro/West-centrism relegates emergent practices elsewhere to the periphery, undergirding analyses of contemporary transnational science and technology with traditional but now untenable hierarchical categories. In this book, Amit Prasad examines features of transnationality in science and technology through a study of magnetic resonance imaging research and development in the United States, Britain, and India
650			_aMagnetic resonance imaging
655			_aMedical innovations _bMagnetic resonance imaging -- History.
700			_aAmit Prasad
942			_cCPT
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