{"product_id":"picturing-personhood-9780691113982","title":"Picturing Personhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, this book analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. It demonstrates how brain scans contribute to our social dependence on scientific authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2005 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association \"Picturing Personhood is one of the few visual-culture studies freed from lame textbook generalizations and predictable criticism... Given that brain imaging is on its way to becoming a decisive factor in the technologies of social control and selection, it is a question of political awareness to study the latest step in the conversion of human beings into visual information.\"--Tom Holert, Bookforum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  Acknowledgments xi  Chapter 1 Introduction 1  Interlude 1 Thinking about Reading 19  Chapter 2 Metaphors, Histories, and Visions of PET 22  Interlude 2 Reading Function 50  Chapter 3 Producing Brain Images of Mind 53  Interlude 3 Who Can Read Other Minds? 106  Chapter 4 Ways of Seeing Brains as Expert Images 109  Interlude 4 Reading into Images 134  Chapter 5 Traveling Images, Popularizing Brains 139  Interlude 5 Living One's Images 170  Chapter 6 Conclusion: Here Is a PET Image of a Person that Shows Depression 172  Notes 187  Bibliography 209  Index of Names 235 General Index 242","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403727970647,"sku":"9780691113982","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/picturing-personhood-9780691113982","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}