Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity Book

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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 laborat, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

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Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
Written by author Joseph Dumit
Published by Princeton University Press, December 2003
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 laborat
"Dumit's highly original oral history of how PET was developed and his cultural readings of how it is now being used are chock full of fascinating materials and insights. Among its many strengths, this intriguing book is itself highly interdisciplinary. I

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Acknowledgments
Ch. 1 Introduction 1
Ch. 2 Metaphors, Histories, and Visions of PET 22
Ch. 3 Producing Brain Images of Mind 53
Ch. 4 Ways of Seeing Brains as Expert Images 109
Ch. 5 Traveling Images, Popularizing Brains 139
Ch. 6 Conclusion: Here Is a PET Image of a Person that Shows Depression 172
Notes 187
Bibliography 209
Index of Names 235
General Index 242

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This book is great. It is a great look at the production of knowledge, subjectivity and techniques through the interplay of "expert" knowledge and popular culture. I have heard that it is "not ethnographic enough" ... but it is not ture it is plenty ethnographic and brilliant ... (did I metion he is my advisor.)

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	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Metaphors, Histories, and Visions of PET	22
Ch. 3	Producing Brain Images of Mind	53
Ch. 4	Ways of Seeing Brains as Expert Images	109
Ch. 5	Traveling Images, Popularizing Brains	139
Ch. 6	Conclusion: Here Is a PET Image of a Person that Shows Depression	172
	Notes	187
	Bibliography	209
	Index of Names	235
	General Index	242