Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

by Joseph Dumit

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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?...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069111398X

ISBN13:9780691113982

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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