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From Photography to fMRI: Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria
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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
photography; gender studies; medicine; gender
Classification
Medicine, Social Medicine
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
Hysteria; Functional Neurological Disorder; Neuroimaging; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); Medical Research; Visual Studies; History of Medicine; Fine Arts
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
613 p.
Series
Image, 209
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839461761
ISSN
2702-9557
ISBN
978-3-8394-6176-1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed