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From Photography to fMRI
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Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria
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Artikel-Nr:
9783837661767
Veröffentl:
2022
Seiten:
614
Autor:
Paula Muhr
Gewicht:
1049 g
Format:
242x156x41 mm
Serie:
209, Image
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Muhr, PaulaPaula Muhr is an independent scholar and visual artist who investigates knowledge-producing functions of new imaging technologies in biomedical and natural sciences. Her research is situated at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), image theory, medias studies and history of science. She holds a PhD in visual history from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a postgraduate diploma in fine arts (Meisterschülerin) from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. She has published on contemporary photography, image-based hysteria research as well as black hole imaging in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
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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