Picturing Personhood
Subtitle: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (In-formation)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691113982
Subjects: Anthropology; Physiological & neuro-psychology; Tomography; Social Aspects; Neurology - General; Psychology; Medical; Diagnostic Imaging; Neuropsychology; Biological Sciences; Medical / Diagnostic Imaging; Brain; radionuclide imaging
First sentence: Sitting in a paneled conference room at the University of California, Los Angeles, with framed brain images on the wall, I am talking with Dr. Michael Phelps, one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET) scanning (figure 1.1).