Question 1

By the end of the nineteenth century, the visual categorization of people according to types became common practice in which of the following locations?

Accepted Answer

A)  factories 
B)  schools 
C)  metropolitan centers 
D)  rural locations

Question 2

When science and medicine were ignoring the AIDS crisis, ACT UP used visual campaigns such as performances, sit-ins, videos, posters, and flyers to distribute accurate health and science information about AIDS transmission. ACT UP's use of images to get individuals and the mainstream media to pay attention to the crisis forever changed scientific activism. The impact caused by ACT UP's use of visual culture, rather than other forms of transmitting information, most closely resembles what other example from the book?

Accepted Answer

A)  The nudity of the subject in the anthropometric study of a Chinese man was coded within a scientific discourse that established him as an object for cool and dispassionate study. 
B)  Despite sonography being a "sound"-based system, the display of the information it gathers has been adapted to conform to photographic and video image conventions. 
C)  Anatomy Theaters provided entertainment as well as education, creating a spectacle that offered a view into the mysterious borderland between life and death. 
D)  The facial recognition algorithms used by Facebook or Google are ideologically as well as technologically linked to surveillance systems used by police and investigators.

Question 3

Despite being a "sound"-based system, the data derived from a sonograph is shared through graphic images. Why?

Accepted Answer

A)  Biomedical companies prefer using images to display information in their advertisements. 
B)  Translating the information into images reveals information that cannot be accessed otherwise. 
C)  There is a cultural preference for the visual. 
D)  Doctors are able to make quicker diagnoses from images.

Question 4

Art historian Erwin Panofsky wrote that the rise of ____________ was integral to Renaissance art.

Accepted Answer

A)  black-boxing 
B)  anatomy 
C)  botany 
D)  microscopes

Question 5

The ____________ was the focal point of the anatomical theater.

Accepted Answer

A)  audience's reaction 
B)  cadaver 
C)  body part being studied 
D)  anatomist

Question 6

The paradigms used to define the body change with the epistemic shifts of every era. How is the genetic body of the late twentieth century characterized?

Accepted Answer

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Exam 9: Scientific Looking, Looking at Science

By the end of the nineteenth century, the visual categorization of people according to types became common practice in which of the following locations?

Despite being a "sound"-based system, the data derived from a sonograph is shared through graphic images. Why?

Art historian Erwin Panofsky wrote that the rise of ____________ was integral to Renaissance art.

The ____________ was the focal point of the anatomical theater.

The paradigms used to define the body change with the epistemic shifts of every era. How is the genetic body of the late twentieth century characterized?