From Photography to fMRI: Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria: 209 - Softcover

Muhr, Paula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837661768 ISBN 13: 9783837661767

Verlag: Transcript Verlag, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross-disciplinary study to examine the current functional neuroimaging research into hysteria and compare it to the nineteenth-century image-based research into the same disorder. Paula Muhr's central argument is that, both in the nineteenth-century and the current neurobiological research on hysteria, images have enabled researchers to generate new medical insights. Through detailed case studies, Muhr traces how different images, from photography to functional brain scans, have reshaped the historically situated medical understanding of this disorder that defies the mind-body dualism.

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Paula Muhr is an independent researcher and visual artist based in Germany.

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• Verlag: Transcript Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3837661768
• ISBN 13: 9783837661767
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 614
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar