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 ; 2
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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