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From Photography to fMRI: Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria
[Dissertation]
Abstract 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 i... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Fotografie; Geschlechterforschung; Medizin; Gender
Klassifikation
Medizin, Sozialmedizin
sonstige Geisteswissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Hysteria; Functional Neurological Disorder; Neuroimaging; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); Medical Research; Visual Studies; History of Medicine; Fine Arts
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
613 S.
Schriftenreihe
Image, 209
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839461761
ISSN
2702-9557
ISBN
978-3-8394-6176-1
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)