From Photography to Fmri: Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria

by Paula Muhr

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837661768
• ISBN13: 9783837661767
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"