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  title info:
    title: Picturing Personhood
    sub title: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
  name:
    name part: Dumit, Joseph
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx#
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (272 p.) 18 color illus. 19 halftones. 5 table
  abstract: 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 insane? Do men and women think differently? Is rationality a function of the brain? Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, Joseph Dumit analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. Such assumptions can enter the process at any turn, from selecting subjects and mathematical models to deciding which images to publish and how to color them. Once they leave the laboratory, PET scans shape social debates, influence courtroom outcomes, and have positive and negative consequences for people suffering mental illness. Dumit follows this complex story, demonstrating how brain scans, as scientific objects, contribute to our increasing social dependence on scientific authority. The first book to examine the cultural ramifications of brain-imaging technology, Picturing Personhood is an unprecedented study that will influence both cultural studies and the growing field of science and technology studies
  note: Joseph Dumit
  subject:
    topic: Brain / Tomography / Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Brain / Tomography
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL / Diagnostic Imaging / General
  identifier: 9780691236629
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691236629
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691236629
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691236629/original
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    record content source: EBA-deGruyter
    record creation date: 210927
    record change date: 20250109102456.0
    record identifier: 99371013710906441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger