Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity by Joseph Dumit

Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

Joseph Dumit

272 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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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 labo...

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