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In March 1992, the editor of the Journal inaugurated the Images in Clinical Medicine section with an editorial pointing out the enormous variety of visual images that doctors use in their daily work. Noting how crucial these images are to clinical decisions, he argued that they are not just representations of a reality independent of viewers; instead, they induce within viewers a rich cognitive model of reality that is necessary for their interpretation. Screening the Body builds elaborately on this theme, arguing in a variety of ways that visual images in medicine can be understood only in relation to the
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