[PDF.87ij] Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (In-Formation)

Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (In-Formation)

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 | #1233411 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2004-01-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.14 x.68 x6.20l,.89 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| My wife likes it!|By William R. Brown|I keep taking this book out of my car and putting it in my wife's library... However, since it keeps going back into my car, I am making the assumption that she really likes the book!| |Winner of the 2005 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association

"Picturing Personhood is one of the few visual-culture studies freed from lame textbook generalizations and predictable criticism. . . . Given that brain ima

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 scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease? Are criminals...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (In-Formation)   |  Joseph Dumit. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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