Picturing Personhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Picturing Personhood write by Joseph Dumit. This book was released on 2021-09-14. Picturing Personhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease? Are criminals insane? Do men and women think differently? Is rationality a function of the brain? Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, Joseph Dumit analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. Such assumptions can enter the process at any turn, from selecting subjects and mathematical models to deciding which images to publish and how to color them. Once they leave the laboratory, PET scans shape social debates, influence courtroom outcomes, and have positive and negative consequences for people suffering mental illness. Dumit follows this complex story, demonstrating how brain scans, as scientific objects, contribute to our increasing social dependence on scientific authority. The first book to examine the cultural ramifications of brain-imaging technology, Picturing Personhood is an unprecedented study that will influence both cultural studies and the growing field of science and technology studies.
The Road to Abolition?
The Road to Abolition? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Road to Abolition? write by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.. This book was released on 2009-11-01. The Road to Abolition? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not the death penalty will ever be abolished in America. The interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., and Austin Sarat ask and attempt to answer the hard questions that need to be addressed if the death penalty is to be abolished. Will the death penalty end only to be replaced with life in prison without parole? Will life without the possibility of parole become, in essence, the new death penalty? For abolitionists, might that be a pyrrhic victory? The contributors discuss how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the current debate over lethal injection as a case study on why and how the elimination of certain forms of execution might provide a model for the larger abolition of the death penalty.
Множественная реальность головного мозга. Рецензия на книгу Dumit J. (2004) Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press
Множественная реальность головного мозга. Рецензия на книгу Dumit J. (2004) Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Множественная реальность головного мозга. Рецензия на книгу Dumit J. (2004) Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press write by Денис Сивков. This book was released on 2020-11-06. Множественная реальность головного мозга. Рецензия на книгу Dumit J. (2004) Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Одной из важнейших тем в исследованиях биомедицинских технологий является проблема репрезентации. В позитивистской модели науки считалось, что научные репрезентации выражают состояние дел в природе, отражают саму природу и истину. Различные репрезентации являются всего лишь «метками» и / или «иллюстрациями» и в этом смысле не обладают самостоятельным существованием. В 70‐х и 80‐х годах ХХ века в этнографических исследованиях естественнонаучных лабораторий было показано, что ученые не имеют дело непосредственно с природой, а работают с многочисленными репрезентациями, которые зачастую выдаются за природу. В ставшей уже классической работе «Лабораторная жизнь» Бруно Латур и Стив Вулгар открыли: то, что называется научными фактами, представляет собой различного рода записи [Latour, 1986]. «Физический процесс» или «вещество» проявляется или делается видимым, а на деле конструируется в лаборатории в виде репрезентаций. В дальнейшем в исследованиях науки и технологий (STS) рассматривались различные аспекты, связанные с репрезентацией, визуализацией и математизацией в науке и технологии [Coopmans, Vertesi, Lynch, Woolgar, 2014].
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies write by Jeanette Edwards. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data – brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on particular kinds of technology or taken only a purely textual/visual (cultural studies) approach to images of the body. Combining approaches from three of the most dynamic and popular fields of contemporary social anthropology – the study of the visual, the study of the technological and the study of the human body – this volume draws these together and interrogates their intersection using insights from ethnographic approaches. Offering a fascinating and wide range of perspectives, the chapters in this volume bring an innovative focus that reflects the authors’ shared interest in ‘the body’ and visualising technologies.
Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities write by Anne Whitehead. This book was released on 2016-06-14. Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.
