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Picturing Personhood : Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dumit, Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2021
Colección:In-formation series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Metaphors, histories, and visions of PET
  • Producing brain images of mind
  • Ways of seeing brains as expert images
  • Traveling images, popularizing brains
  • Conclusion : here is a PET image of a person that shows depression.