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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2021
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| Collection: | In-formation series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.