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Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

By Joseph Dumit

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN
9780691113982, 069111398X
Google Books ID
FOk9DwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7223265 bytes)
Pages
251\252
Time added
2020-09-28 02:34:48

Description

"Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, then author 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. The author follows this complex story, demonstrating how brain scans, as scientific objects, contribute to our increasing social dependence on scientific authority".--BOOKJACKET.

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