Picturing Personhood : : Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity / / Joseph Dumit.
By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET s...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | In-Formation ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 18 color illus. 19 halftones. 5 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Metaphors, Histories, and Visions of PET
- Chapter 3 Producing Brain Images of Mind
- Chapter 4 Ways of Seeing Brains as Expert Images
- Chapter 5 Traveling Images, Popularizing Brains
- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Here Is a PET Image of a Person that Shows Depression
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- General Index