Medical Visualistics

Visualistics is suposed to be a new interdisciplinary field of research of all those scientific and artistic activities and dynamics, which have one common: generating digital images out of data.
The predominance of digital images and media and technologies of imagery is in all cultural areas obvious. Beyond the pictorial turn, which is widely accepted by artistic, academic and even political communities to be a irreversible fact, we should state, that there is urgent need for more sophisticated, focussed, rationale and reproducible approaches to the objects, phenomena and dynamics regarding all those images, which have been generated out of continuous quantities of data. We would call this interdisciplinary field of research VISUALISTICS.
Visualistics might be focussed on specific fields of arts, science, and popular culture and, therefor, it divides its methodological and content-based attention to broad diversity of image types and formats in many different fields of culture.
Visualistics could be referred to various fields of contemporary arts.
Visualistics has to deal with a range of scientific fields, that encompass digital images and media and technologies of imagery, as they are medicine, computer sciences, natural sciences, and some parts of humanities. We should be aware that all mentioned scientific disciplines and areas are part of a "big science" and thus an integral and determining part of culture. On a deeper level of scientific activity each discipline and research area builds distinctive sub areas of generation, storing, distribution and communication of images. Visualistics has to be particular, focussed and issue orientated. They are multiple scientific visual cultures.
Medicine has got a long history of generation, storing and usage of images. The medicine of the our times (since 1850) is being always a image based format of knowledge. The implementation of X ray by W. C. Röntgen was the trigger point, historically, for an unforeseeable history of innovations in science per se. The digital era in medicine has stared very early comparing to many other adjacent technical and biosciences. Computer tomography was constructed 1972. The last four decades of medical practices are stamped by a rapidly emerging technological media / machines for imaging. Today there is no relevant medical practice without involvement of imaging. All that facts, which could easily reproduced in internet, leads to the urgency of establishing a new interdisciplinary field of research with special emphases to the western medicine. This analytic research field will include all implications of imagery media and technologies and all impact digitally generated, stored, distributed and communicated body images have inside disciplinary "episteme" in terms of the order of medical knowledge and, more attractive and of general interest, outside medicine in many cultural areas, as they are mass media like newspapers, magazines, TV and popular culture like cinema.
MEDICAL VISUALISTICS is a new interdisciplinary field of research on images and imagery media and technologies used in clinical routine by means of custom methodology and analysis tools. It is an emerging field.
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