From Photography to fMRI
Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria
NOCH LEKTORIEREN BITTE This is the first cross-disciplinary study to examine the current functional neuroimaging research into hysteria and compare it to the 19th-century image-based research into the same disorder. The book challenges the common view that hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, ceased to exist. Its central argument is that, both in the 19th-century and 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.
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.
| Autor: | Muhr, Paula |
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| ISBN: | 9783837661767 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.09.2022 |
| Untertitel: | Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria |
| Schlagworte: | Cultural Studies Culture and institutions Fine Arts Fotografie Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Functional Neurological Disorder Gender Gender Studies Geschichte der Medizin Groups of people History, geographic treatment, biography History of Medicine History of Science Hysteria Knowledge Kunsttheorie Medical research Medicine Medicine and health Medienwissenschaften Medizin, Gesundheit Photography Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) Psychology Social & cultural history Social interaction The arts Visual Studies auseinandersetzen neuroimaging |
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