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From Photography to fMRI
Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria
Author(s)
Muhr, Paula
Collection
DFG Open Access Publication FundingLanguage
EnglishAbstract
Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross-disciplinary study to examine the current functional neuroimaging research into hysteria and compare it to the nineteenth-century image-based research into the same disorder. Paula Muhr's central argument is that, both in the nineteenth-century and the current neurobiological research on hysteria, images have enabled researchers to generate new medical insights. Through detailed case studies, Muhr traces how different images, from photography to functional brain scans, have reshaped the historically situated medical understanding of this disorder that defies the mind-body dualism.
Keywords
Hysteria; Functional Neurological Disorder; Neuroimaging; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); Photography; Medical Research; Visual Studies; Gender; Medicine; History of Medicine; Gender Studies; Fine ArtsDOI
10.1515/9783839461761ISBN
9783839461761, 9783837661767, 9783839461761Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2022Imprint
transcript VerlagSeries
Image, 209Classification
Photography and photographs
Media studies
History of medicine
Theory of art