Based on the book Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles. Recounting the story of medical imaging from the discovery of X-rays in 1896 through the development of fluoroscopy, Ultra Sound, CT Scanning and MRI, this one-hour documentary reveals the power of medical imaging as it is used in medicine today. A century ago, the living body, like most of the material world, was opaque. Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured and X-ray image of his wifes fingerher wedding ring floating around a white boneand our range of vision changed forever. By the 1920s, X-ray technology was common-place: all army recruits had lined up for chest pictures during WWI, and children were examining the bones of their feet in shoe store fluoroscopes, spectacularly unaware of the radiation they were absorbing. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and over seventy striking illustrations, science writer Bettyann Holtzman Kevles shows how X-rays and the subsequent daughter ...