ABSTRACT
Imaging technologies are probably the most important innovations to have revolutionised modern medicine globally over the last thirty years. Through advances in radiography, ultrasound, and information technology, modern diagnostic techniques have made the interior functions and slices of the human body visible. As medical practice becomes increasingly based around specialisation and the use of imaging techniques, the clinical skills of the doctor are being superseded by the super-specialist and the radiologist, as operators of knowing machines.1 While most doctors in Kerala appreciate many of the advances in modern medical technologies, at the very least many question whether India can afford such a system of medicine.
