Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity - In-Formation - Joseph Dumit - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691113982 - January 4, 2004
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Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity - In-Formation


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Based 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.


288 pages, 18 color illus. 19 halftones. 5 table.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 4, 2004
ISBN13 9780691113982
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 157 × 232 × 16 mm   ·   403 g
Language English  
Editor Rabinow, Paul

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